Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Art lessons for KS3 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.

Live polling on visual choices with debate

Year 7 · 35 min · 1 device per student

The teacher posts three versions of the same composition (different focal point placement, different colour balance, different cropping). Students vote on Mentimeter for the strongest version, defend in pairs, debate, re-vote.

Tools: Mentimeter

Pair sketch critique via shared annotation

Year 8 · 40 min · 1 device per student

Each student photographs their sketch from the previous lesson and posts to a class Padlet. Three named peers comment on each sketch, identifying one strong technique and one area to develop. Students revise their sketch the following lesson based on three pieces of feedback.

Tools: Padlet

Painting interpretation on a class wall

Year 9 · 35 min · 1 device per student

The teacher posts a single painting (e.g. Picasso's Guernica, Hokusai's Great Wave, Kahlo's The Two Fridas). Each student posts a one-line interpretation of what the painting is doing emotionally and one detail that supports their reading. The class scrolls and the teacher draws out the variety of readings.

Tools: Padlet

Lessons that look IA but are not

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 key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.