Interactive Replace sits at the Interactive row and the Replace column of the PICRAT grid. Students are responding: answering, sorting, labelling, annotating. The task is one the teacher would have set anyway, and the technology only carries it: something else could carry the same task.
Year 3 drag labels onto a puja tray photograph in Seesaw. Year 8 fill in trace tables for three short Python loops on a Google Doc. Year 9 match quotations from Owen's Exposure to technique and effect in a FigJam card sort. Year 8 sit a fortnightly times-tables check on a Microsoft Form.
There is nothing wrong with any of these. They save photocopying and they keep work in one place. What they do not yet do is change what happens next. The moment the teacher uses the responses during the lesson, to regroup, reteach or put two answers side by side, the same activity becomes Interactive Amplify. That is usually the smallest move on the whole grid.
Art
Each student gathers 12 portrait references from Google Arts & Culture and the web onto their own private Padlet wall, with a one-line caption for each.
Computing
Groups plan a sequence of moves to get a Bee-Bot from the start square to a target on a grid mat, predict the route, run it and fix any errors.
Pairs drag shuffled pseudocode lines into working order for three algorithms on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard, spotting the one line in each puzzle that belongs to no correct solution.
Pairs run a teacher-provided micro:bit program in the MakeCode simulator, press each virtual input, record what happens and test a prediction by swapping two event handlers.
Students trace three short Python programs line by line, recording each variable's value in trace tables in their own copy of a Google Doc, which the teacher marks for the next lesson.
Drama
Students annotate the Inspector's 'fire and blood and anguish' speech in their own Google Doc with the pace, pause, volume, gesture and movement they would use as the actor.
Design and technology
Students wire a 9 V battery, a resistor and an LED in Tinkercad Circuits, run the simulation with five resistor values and record the current and brightness for each.
English
Pairs drag twelve shuffled sentences from a persuasive letter to the council back into order on a Microsoft Whiteboard, then label the job each paragraph does.
Pairs recolour fourteen jumbled sticky notes, one for each line of Christina Rossetti's 'Remember', by the rhyme each ends on, then use the colours and the sense to rebuild the sonnet in FigJam.
Students annotate William Blake's The Tyger in their own Google Doc, using four highlight colours for questions, repetition, fire imagery and forge imagery, then draft a paragraph on what the questions do.
Students read The Empty House, a teacher-written Twine mystery, choosing a route at each of nine branch points and logging their predictions and the tension of each passage in their books.
Pairs drag eighteen sticky notes on a FigJam board into quotation, technique and effect triples from Wilfred Owen's Exposure, then rank the triples by how much work each technique does.
Geography
Children drag eight labels and four arrows onto a picture of sea, hills and sky in a Seesaw activity, then write under it how the water moves round the loop.
Students fly to eight teacher-chosen coordinates in Google Earth, identify the biome at each from what the imagery shows, and record two pieces of visual evidence in a table.
Students work through a self-paced set of 20 four-figure, six-figure and map-symbol questions on Wayground, the same set the department ran as a Kahoot challenge last year.
Students open Windy's pressure layer, find today's highs and lows over the North Atlantic and answer the department's standard chart-reading questions from the isobars.
Pairs switch between wind, pressure, rain and wave layers to complete the scheme of work's data table for a named tropical storm, then predict which stretch of coast takes the worst of it.
History
Pairs work through a branching Microsoft Form on the death of William II in the New Forest in 1100, where each reliability decision sends them to a different source and, in the end, a different verdict.
Each student studies Punch's 1852 cartoon 'A Court for King Cholera' and types answers to six questions in a Microsoft Form, from what they can see to what the cartoonist wanted readers to think.
Each student colour-codes the ten demands of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum by how Serbia answered them, adds margin comments, and judges whether the ultimatum was written to be rejected.
Before writing their causation essay, pairs arrange nine cause cards, each carrying a factual anchor, into a diamond-nine on a Padlet Sandbox board and justify every placement.
Maths
Grade 3 drag fraction labels onto shaded shapes across six Seesaw pages and circle the two shapes on each page that show the same amount, including a 2/3 and 3/4 trap.
Grade 4 work out ten perimeter and area questions in their books and type each answer into a Microsoft Form, which the teacher reads after school and goes through with the class the next morning.
Students drag twelve graph cards onto twelve equation cards in a Desmos Classroom card sort, with three deliberate near-misses such as y = 2x + 1 against y = 2x - 1.
Grade 7 answer 30 mixed times-tables questions on a Microsoft Form at the start of the lesson, with results hidden, and the teacher reads the totals afterwards as they once marked the printed grid.
Pairs drag sixteen sequence cards into arithmetic, geometric and other columns on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then find the nth term of every arithmetic one.
Music
Students open a teacher-recorded 12-bar blues in C from a BandLab for Education assignment and mute and solo its four tracks to work out where the chords change.
PE
Pairs drag five unlabelled heart-rate graphs onto the sports they came from, a 100 m sprint, a marathon, a football match, a yoga class and a boxing bout, on a FigJam board and justify each match.
PSHE
Pairs drag sixteen short health scenarios about fictional people on a FigJam board into four columns: call 999, call NHS 111, see a pharmacist or look after it at home.
After reading Anna Llenas' The Colour Monster, children drag six picture scenes into the five coloured feeling jars in a Seesaw activity, talking with an adult about each choice.
RE
Pairs drag eight given labels onto a photograph of a puja tray in a Seesaw activity and add the purpose of each item from a word bank.
Science
Children open the teacher's Book Creator template and drag four word labels onto a photo of a sunflower, drawing a line from each label to the part, after pulling up a real sunflower in the school garden.
After handling real objects, pairs answer a twelve-question Microsoft Forms quiz, choosing wood, metal, plastic, glass or fabric for photos of classroom objects, and the teacher reads the answers after school.
Groups drag twelve animal pictures into four habitat zones on their own copy of a Microsoft Whiteboard board, adding a sticky note that gives one reason each animal is suited to where it lives.
Pairs drag eight pictures of everyday changes, from a dripping ice lolly to a misted bathroom mirror, under melting, freezing, evaporating or condensing in a Seesaw activity, then type a reason for two of them.
Pairs work through a teacher-built PowerPoint dichotomous key, clicking Yes or No at each question, to name ten pond invertebrates from photographs.
Pairs drag nine leaf-feature cards onto nine function cards on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then place each matched pair on a cross-section of a leaf.
Students answer an eighteen-question Microsoft Forms quiz on organelle functions and cell types, with results held back until the teacher returns them next lesson.
Students drag label boxes and arrows onto four cell images in their own copy of a PowerPoint file, removing the labels that do not belong, and hand it in for marking.
Students paste their own typed notes on respiration into Gemini, ask for ten questions with no answers, type their answers from memory in a new Doc and mark themselves against their notes.
Lessons that look Interactive Replace but sit in another
Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.