Interactive Amplify PE lessons for middle school.

In pairs, students film each other's crouch start in slow motion on a school tablet, side-on, three times each. Each student posts their best clip to a class Padlet set to school login and private to the class, with videos removed at the end of the unit. Pairs then watch three classmates' clips and comment against the teacher's coaching points: hips slightly above shoulders in the set position, a drive from both legs, and a low body angle for the first few strides. The teacher reads the comments, picks the coaching point the class is getting wrong most often, and runs a five-minute drill on it before a final filmed attempt.

Tools: Built-in camera (slow motion and time-lapse), Padlet Nine ideas for your own version in Generate

Year 8 are about to run a short interval session: two minutes' walking, four rounds of thirty seconds' shuttle running and thirty seconds' rest, then three minutes' recovery. Before they move, each student sketches on a Desmos Classroom sketch screen how they expect heart rate to change across the session, against a time axis the teacher has labelled. The teacher watches the sketches arrive on the dashboard, overlays them anonymously on the board, and uses the overlay to open two arguments: the many sketches where heart rate drops back to resting in every thirty-second rest, and the few where it climbs round after round. Students revise their sketch after the discussion, then in the sports hall they check it against their own pulse, counted for fifteen seconds at three points and noted privately, while anyone not taking part runs the stopwatch and calls the intervals.

Tools: Desmos Nine ideas for your own version in Generate

The teacher shares a Google Sheet with numbered rows and no names, and each student draws a numbered slip from a bag, so no one, the teacher included, knows whose row is whose. Students record their resting pulse, their pulse straight after 30 seconds of star jumps, and again after one minute of recovery, then enter the three values in their row. A chart built into the sheet updates as the data arrive, and the teacher uses it during the lesson to ask why recovery varies across a group and what affects how fast a heart rate returns to resting. Any student who would rather not measure their own pulse takes the timekeeper role and enters values from a sample set instead. Students end by writing a conclusion about recovery rate using the class averages.

Tools: Google Sheets Nine ideas for your own version in Generate

The teacher prepares a FigJam board with one blank football pitch per student and sets the scenario: your team is 1-0 up with five minutes left and the opposition are throwing players forward. Students drag player counters into a formation and add a sticky note explaining how it protects the lead, for example dropping to a back five or keeping one striker high to relieve pressure. The teacher zooms out across the board, groups the pitches by approach during the lesson, and asks one student from each group to argue for their choice. Students finish by noting the formation they would use and one risk it carries, ready to test in the next practical lesson.

Tools: FigJam Nine ideas for your own version in Generate