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

Ecosystem food web building, class merge

Year 7 · 50 min · 1 device per student

Each student is given five organisms from a shared habitat (e.g. a temperate woodland). They build a partial food web on their own Jamboard frame. In the second half of the lesson, the class merges all frames into a single class web; the teacher highlights cross-web species (those that appear in multiple students' webs) and asks the class what role they likely play.

Tools: Jamboard

Forces investigation with shared spreadsheet

Year 8 · 60 min · 1 device per student plus practical equipment

Students conduct a basic spring extension experiment at their bench. Each student enters their three measurements into a shared class spreadsheet. The class scrolls all thirty rows; the teacher highlights outliers and asks the contributing student to explain whether the outlier reveals a measurement error or a real effect. Pairs then plot the class average against load.

Tools: Google Sheets

Periodic table sorting on a shared Padlet

Year 9 · 40 min · 1 device per student

Each student is assigned three elements (e.g. by row in a register list). They post each element to one of three Padlet columns (metal, non-metal, metalloid) with a one-line property justification. The class scrolls and the teacher pulls out any element that landed in the wrong column, asking the contributing student to defend before the class corrects.

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.