Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real History lessons for KS4 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.
Source-reliability vote with debate
The teacher posts a single primary source (e.g. a propaganda poster, a witness account, a speech extract). Students vote on Mentimeter for how reliable they think it is on a five-point scale. The class sees the spread, then in pairs writes a 30-second defence. The teacher calls one pair from each end of the spread to argue. The class re-votes.
Tools: Mentimeter
Causation factor weights on a shared diagram
Each student gets their own Jamboard frame with five named factors that contributed to a historical event (e.g. for the outbreak of WWI: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, the assassination). They drag each factor onto a 1-to-5 weight scale on the frame, justifying with a one-line note. The class scrolls all thirty frames and the teacher highlights factors that students weighted very differently.
Tools: Jamboard
Historians' interpretations comparison
The teacher posts three short extracts from different historians on the same event (e.g. the causes of the First World War as analysed by Fischer, Joll and Clark). Each student picks the interpretation they find most convincing and posts to a shared Padlet column with a two-sentence justification. The class scrolls the columns and the teacher draws out the contested points.
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.