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

Source-pairing on the Magna Carta

Year 8 · 40 min · 1 device per pair

Pairs receive two contemporary sources on the Magna Carta, one from a baron and one from a royal scribe. They highlight one fact and one bias in each, post both to a class Padlet, and in the plenary the teacher pulls out three contradictions between the sources for whole-class discussion.

Tools: Padlet

Interactive timeline of the Industrial Revolution

Year 9 · 50 min · 1 device per pair

Each pair takes one decade between 1760 and 1840 and adds three events to a shared timeline (Padlet, Sutori, or a shared Google Doc with a date column). The class scrolls the resulting full timeline together; the teacher calls on three pairs to defend why their events mattered for the trajectory of industrialisation.

Tools: Sutori, Padlet, Google Docs

Voice-recorded source analysis on the Treaty of Versailles

Year 9 · 40 min · 1 device per pair

Students listen to a 60-second extract from a contemporary German politician’s reaction to the Treaty. In pairs, they record a 60-second voice memo identifying two emotions in the speaker’s tone and the historical context for each. They submit the recording to the teacher.

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.