Interactive Amplify sits at the Interactive row and the Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Students are responding, and the technology adds something to the task: instant feedback, a view of everyone's answer, or pooled data.
This is the largest cell in the catalogue, and the one most everyday lessons can reach. The common thread is that the teacher sees every student's thinking at once and does something with it.
Sometimes that is a vote taken twice. Year 8 vote and re-vote on where a tree's mass comes from. Year 9 vote on forgiving without an apology, before and after Christian teaching. Sometimes it is a shared wall: Year 11 choose between Fischer, Joll and Clark on the causes of the First World War. Sometimes it is pooled results: Year 8 put their spring extension data in one sheet to find the outliers. And sometimes it is a quiz that decides the next ten minutes, like the Year 1 Kahoot stopped for a re-teach after question five.
If the responses are collected and nobody acts on them until next lesson, the activity is Interactive Replace.
Art
Students rank three crops of a still-life photo on Mentimeter, and the teacher opens the discussion on the crop that divides the class most.
Students post photos of their shell or seed-head sketches to Padlet, three named peers comment on each, and revised versions go up beside the originals next lesson.
Students zoom into Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow on Google Arts & Culture, choose one small detail, and post a reading of the painting's mood that the detail supports.
Computing
Every student remixes a teacher-made Scratch game with two planted bugs, hunts them in their own copy and posts the cause and fix to a class Padlet wall that the teacher uses to run the debate.
Each student traces one of three pseudocode snippets, posts a plain-English explanation of what it does to a class Padlet, and challenges classmates' explanations in the comments.
Students vote on which of three search algorithms is most efficient, test each in Scratch on growing lists, chart the class's comparison counts and vote again.
Students watch the teacher's screencast of fixing a buggy Python program in Edpuzzle and must predict each next debugging step before the video continues.
Students write a prediction for each of eight short Python snippets, run it in a shared Replit project, and explain in one sentence any prediction that missed.
Students translate three OCR Exam Reference Language algorithms into Python, test them in Replit, and post them to Padlet so the teacher can compare contrasting versions.
Students post bugs from a planted-error Python function to syntax and logic columns on Padlet, and the teacher targets the bug nobody found.
Students place sticky notes on the weakest parts of an office network diagram in FigJam, then propose fixes and vote on which to make first.
Students comment on the attributes of a trip-booking table that break 2NF or 3NF, and the plenary starts from the attributes the class disagrees on.
Two named peers comment on each student's practice library-loans code in a shared Doc, and writers fix the flagged lines in Replit and rerun the teacher's tests.
Students vote on the best search method for one lookup and for ten thousand lookups in an unsorted list, and the teacher uses the split to expose the cost of sorting.
Drama
Pairs film each other's 30-second monologues, post them to a class-only Padlet, give peer notes on one delivery skill, and re-record after a targeted warm-up.
Students vote on Mrs Johnstone's motivation, watch the two most popular readings performed, then vote again.
Students comment on one page of Act 3 of The Crucible with the choices they would make as director, and the teacher stages the most contested moment.
Design and technology
Groups load four glued pine joints until they fail, enter each breaking load into one shared sheet, and the teacher uses the live chart to question the results that do not fit.
English
Groups drag six pictures onto the digraph they hear (ch, sh, th, ng, ai or ee) in a Seesaw activity, and the teacher projects contrasting responses.
Groups of Kindergarten children post words with the /ai/ sound to a class Padlet on the board, and the teacher sorts them by spelling as they arrive.
Small groups record a turn-by-turn spoken retelling of The Gruffalo in Seesaw, then the class plays two back against a picture story map to check the order and spot missing events.
After reading The Selfish Giant, each pupil posts one sentence on its main idea to a class Padlet, and the teacher uses the range of answers to teach what a main idea is.
Groups drag mood-word labels onto stanzas of Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman on their own Padlet Sandbox card, and the teacher compares the groups' choices in the plenary.
Grade 4 work on Lexia Core5 comprehension activities at their own level while the teacher takes the group the programme's report flagged for a short teacher-led lesson.
Each pupil posts a prediction for the next chapter of Kensuke's Kingdom, the class votes on the likeliest, and after the reading pupils check their predictions against the text.
Students name the device at work in fifteen extracts from charity leaflets and adverts in a self-paced Wayground quiz, acting on instant feedback, while the teacher stops the class to untangle the device most of them are confusing.
Students listen to a recorded reading of Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman in Edpuzzle, answering seven questions that pause the recording, while the teacher watches the answers arrive and sits with those who need another listen.
The class splits into three groups and each student comments on rhetorical devices in one shared Google Doc per speech, ready for a plenary comparison.
Each student analyses one of three contrasting Gothic story openings and posts its structural choices and effects to that opening's column on a class Padlet.
Half the class reads Chopin's The Story of an Hour and half reads Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, and each student posts a narrative-voice label with a justifying quotation to a class Padlet.
Students rate eight quotations from Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 5 Scene 1 on a Mentimeter scale from in control to losing control, and the class argues over the lines where the live averages are contested.
Students commit to one of three readings of Beatrice Garland's Kamikaze on Mentimeter, defend it in pairs, debate, and re-poll to see who changed their mind.
Each student posts a short reading of the opening of Mrs Dalloway through an assigned critical lens, and the teacher pairs clashing readings live.
Geography
Pairs answer a twelve-question live Kahoot built on common water cycle misconceptions, and the teacher stops after any question most pairs get wrong to settle it with a quick demonstration.
Each student pins a named hazard event on a shared Padlet map with a one-line summary, and the class watches patterns such as the Ring of Fire appear as the pins arrive.
Grade 8 drop into Street View at three saved places in Mumbai, look around and move along the streets, and record evidence for a written comparison.
Each student places an unlabelled population pyramid in a demographic transition stage column on a class Padlet, and the teacher reveals the countries after discussing the disagreements.
Students vote on the future of Happisburgh's coastline, post stakeholder arguments to a Padlet, then re-vote before the teacher shows the actual plan.
Students answer Copilot's questions on Typhoon Haiyan one at a time, read its feedback on each answer, and check that feedback against the textbook case study before correcting their notes.
Each student pins a real migration flow on a class Padlet map and colour-codes its main push or pull factor, so the class pattern builds as the pins go in.
Students rate ten climate change sources as high, medium or low reliability in Microsoft Forms, and the teacher uses the live summary to pick the most disputed ones.
After both schools have measured a local river, a Grade 10 class pools its channel data with a partner school's in one sheet, tests both rivers against the Bradshaw model and questions the other class's methods.
Students post three hypotheses for the class's practice fieldwork site to a Padlet, three named peers comment on each, and students revise their preferred one.
Students comment on the most and least convincing lines of an extract about Bangladesh's garment industry, reply to classmates who disagree, and the plenary runs from the longest threads.
History
Each pair pins its civilisation's heartland and one place it traded with on a class Padlet map, and the class looks for where civilisations met.
Pairs guess the use of a mystery Roman object from a close-up photo, then update their guess on Padlet as the teacher reveals two more clues.
Grade 7 rule on ten cases as factory inspectors in 1840, answering against the 1833 Act, allowed by it or outside it in Wayground, and the teacher reteaches the cases that the class gets wrong most often.
Pairs post a fact and a viewpoint from the 1215 charter and from Roger of Wendover's chronicle to Padlet, and the teacher sets conflicting readings side by side.
After each of five moments in the July Crisis, Grade 8 rate six powers' responsibility on a Mentimeter scale, and the teacher uses the shifts and splits to choose which arguments the class has next.
Two pairs per decade choose the three most significant events from a set of cards and post them to that decade's Padlet column, then defend any choices that differ.
Pairs record a 60-second Mote voice comment analysing extracts from Scheidemann's speech, and the teacher plays contrasting ones back and replies by voice.
Students rate how useful a First World War recruitment poster is for an enquiry, then rate it again once the teacher reveals who made it and why.
Students back one of three historians' interpretations in a Padlet column, and the teacher uses the column sizes to decide who argues first.
A Grade 10 class and a partner school hold a mock hearing on who caused the war in 1914, with advocates, witnesses in role, cross-examiners and a jury drawn from both classes.
Students post a 150-word defence of the orthodox, revisionist or post-revisionist view in that historian's Padlet column, then counter a post in another column.
Students rate the reliability of John Reed's eyewitness account on a Mentimeter scale, the teacher re-teaches provenance from the spread, and students rate again.
Maths
Teams of three answer ten picture questions on one more and one less in a teacher-run Kahoot, and the teacher stops the game to re-teach counting back when the class splits on 'one less than 20'.
Pairs play the first level of PhET's Fraction Matcher, saying why two cards match before they press Check, and use the smiley face or the number line to decide their next move.
Children drag six two-digit numbers onto a 0 to 100 line in a Seesaw activity and record why 47 goes where it does, while the teacher watches responses arrive and pulls a group for a Dienes re-teach.
Grade 3 play a live Kahoot whose wrong answers come from common fraction errors, and the teacher stops the game to reteach with a fraction wall when the answer spread shows the add-one mistake.
Pupils sort fraction cards, shown as digits and as fraction bars, into three equivalence groups in a Desmos card sort while the teacher watches every sort on the dashboard.
Pupils answer three self-paced rounds of ten mixed times-tables questions on Wayground, and the teacher reteaches the facts the class report shows are weakest before each new round.
Pupils choose the equation that matches each of ten word problems from four look-alike options, and the teacher uses the live response summary to discuss the most popular wrong choice.
Every student drags ten mixed values onto their own Desmos number line, and the teacher uses the live view of all thirty lines to pair up disagreements and choose what the class discusses.
Students plot a shape's vertices in all four quadrants in a Desmos activity, and the teacher uses the dashboard overlay to spot and fix quadrant errors as they happen.
Students answer a live Kahoot of linear equations whose wrong options come from common mistakes, and the teacher stops on any question where the answer chart splits.
Three days before an algebra assessment, students work through a Seneca assignment that keeps returning them to the skills they get wrong, and the class results decide Friday's warm-up.
Students predict three probability outcomes on Mentimeter, run 1,000 trials of each in a Google Sheets simulator, and pool the class's results to see which predictions held up.
Students solve quadratics by factorising, check each pair of roots against the graph in Desmos, and fix their own errors before moving on.
Students test the angle in a semicircle theorem by dragging a GeoGebra construction, write a proof, and post it to a Padlet column for their method so the class can compare approaches.
Students each draw a random sample from 200 anonymised CensusAtSchool records in Google Sheets, and a class chart of everyone's sample means shows sampling variation.
Students decide whether pairs of 3D lines intersect, are parallel or are skew, check in GeoGebra 3D, and the teacher uses the live Classroom view to pick errors to discuss.
Students vote for the best conclusion to a binomial hypothesis test, defend their choice in pairs on a Padlet, and re-vote after the teacher tackles the misconceptions.
Students differentiate the same function by the route of their choice, check it in GeoGebra, and post their working so the teacher can compare routes.
An adult names a start number and a target such as 'one more than 4', children predict and program the Bee-Bot along a 0 to 10 number track, and its landing shows at once whether they counted right.
Languages (MFL)
A Grade 8 German class argues in German and a partner Gymnasium class argues in English on whether schools should have uniforms, with every student in a role and judges scoring each speech live.
Students ask Copilot Chat to translate twelve French sentences built around idioms and false friends, test every translation against a bilingual dictionary and their own version, and question Copilot on the choices that disagree.
Students record short spoken answers to five Spanish prompts on a private class Padlet, give each other feedback on pronunciation, and re-record one answer.
Students translate a 60-word French passage, post it to a Padlet, then defend their choices on the two phrases where the class split.
Pairs record GCSE-style photo-card descriptions in Spanish, post them to a class-only Padlet, and check three classmates' recordings against a short checklist.
Students post one note after each of three listens to a German clip, and the teacher uses the wall to change how the next listen is run.
Music
Students rate three melodies over the same chords for how singable they are and how well they fit a lullaby, then sing the one that splits the class.
Students notate four-bar rhythms and a short melody the teacher plays, then play their own notation back in Sibelius, hear where it differs from the original and correct it before the answer is shown.
Students upload their Soundtrap film cues to Padlet, three named peers each comment on harmony, rhythm or texture with a time marker, and composers reply with their revision plan.
PE
Pairs film each other's crouch starts in slow motion, post their best clip to a class-only Padlet, and comment on classmates' clips against set coaching points.
Each student sketches how heart rate will change across a described interval session on a Desmos sketch screen, and the teacher overlays the class's sketches anonymously to pick out misconceptions before a short practical.
Each student sets out a formation to protect a late 1-0 lead on their own pitch on a shared FigJam board, and the teacher groups the approaches live.
AQA GCSE PE students practise the three lever classes on an adaptive Seneca assignment, and the teacher uses the live results to split the room between exam questions and a body-lever demonstration table.
In groups of three with an adult, children film each other's jumps from a low step in slow motion, watch their knees and feet on the replay, and try again to land softly on two feet.
PSHE
Students post what they would do with a found wallet and why, and the teacher sorts the moderated posts live by the factor each student weighed.
Students answer the same bullying scenario twice in anonymous polls, once for what a friend should do and once for what most people would do, and discuss the gap.
Students rate three pieces of sleep advice, from the NHS, a social media clip and a celebrity supplement advert, against four credibility checks in Microsoft Forms.
RE
Each student posts their own-words interpretation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the teacher groups the posts live into themes.
Students place themselves on an agreement scale about forgiveness, meet Christian teaching on it, then place themselves again and compare the two results.
A Grade 11 class and a partner sixth form studying the same ethics paper annotate one euthanasia scenario through natural law and situation ethics, then test each other's strongest annotations in a live call.
Two sixth forms hold an Oxford-style debate on assisted dying with mixed-school teams, and a Mentimeter vote before and after shows which side changed the most minds.
Science
Pairs test a tray of objects with a magnet, photograph their two piles, post them to magnetic and non-magnetic columns, and the class investigates the objects pairs disagree on.
Pairs post a predicted newton meter reading for pulling a box of books with and without rollers, the teacher runs the demo, and pairs reply to their own post with what happened.
Grade 7 vote in Mentimeter on where most of an oak tree's mass came from, meet van Helmont's willow experiment, argue in pairs and vote again, while the teacher uses both results to steer the rest of the lesson.
Grade 7 work through a Seneca assignment on particles and states of matter, and the teacher stops the class part way to reteach the question most students are getting wrong.
Students build each of the first ten elements particle by particle in PhET's Build an Atom, using its live readouts to correct their builds, then draw each shell diagram in their books.
Each student places three elements in metal, non-metal or metalloid columns on a class Padlet with a property justification, and the teacher uses the split placements for the plenary.
Grade 8 answer five checkpoint questions in an Edpuzzle video on digestion, and the teacher reteaches the one most of the class got wrong before they move on.
Students build three specified circuits in PhET, enter their current and potential difference readings in a shared Google Sheet, and use the pooled table to state the series and parallel rules.
Students vote on hard electrolysis questions, and the share of correct votes decides whether the teacher moves on, sets a neighbour discussion or reteaches.
Each student posts one change to the standard method for the rates of reaction practical, and the teacher sorts the wall live by what each change improves.
Each student adds one method change for the free-fall practical to a shared sheet with its estimated effect on uncertainty, and the teacher sorts and challenges the estimates live.
Students post inferences about what a six-mark biology mark scheme rewards, and the teacher groups them live into revision rules.
Students rank four answers to an A-level chemistry 'suggest' question by expected marks, then compare the class ranking with the marks each answer earns against the mark scheme.
Lessons that look Interactive Amplify but sit in another
Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.
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