Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real History lessons for KS5 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.
Historiographical interpretations panel
The teacher posts three short extracts from named historians on the same A-Level event (e.g. for the origins of the Cold War: Kennedy, Gaddis, Lefler). Each student picks the interpretation they find most convincing, posts a 150-word defence on a class Padlet with citation, and reads three peers' defences before the plenary debate.
Tools: Padlet
Source-reliability vote with debate (A-Level)
The teacher posts a single primary source from the A-Level period. Students vote on Mentimeter for how reliable they find it on a five-point scale, plus a free-text reason. The class sees the spread, defends in pairs, debates, and re-votes after.
Tools: Mentimeter
Synoptic essay-plan peer feedback
Each student posts a 300-word essay plan for a synoptic A-Level question on their own page of a shared class Doc. Three named peers comment per plan, focusing on the strongest argument and the most arguable thesis. Students then revise based on three sets of feedback.
Tools: Google Docs
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.