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

Class soundscape construction with shared timeline

Year 7 · 50 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

The class collaboratively builds a 90-second soundscape on one shared Soundtrap session. Each student adds one sound to a designated time-window of the timeline (e.g. forest morning sounds: birds, wind, footsteps). The class plays back the full composition together and discusses what could be tightened.

Tools: Soundtrap

Live polling on melodic choice with debate

Year 8 · 40 min · 1 device per student

The teacher plays three different melodic versions of the same opening (e.g. three different ways to harmonise a folk-song chorus). Students vote on Mentimeter for which they prefer, defend in pairs, debate, re-vote.

Tools: Mentimeter

Pair composition critique with shared annotations

Year 9 · 50 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Each student posts their 30-second composition to a class Padlet column with a one-line description of their compositional choice. Three named peers listen to each composition and post a one-line critique focused on harmony, rhythm or texture. Students revise based on three pieces of feedback.

Tools: Padlet, Soundtrap

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.