Interactive Replace (IR) sits at the Interactive row and Replace column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real History lessons for KS3 that classify as IR, plus anti-examples that look IR but are not.
Branching Forms decision tree on the death of William Rufus
Year 7 are learning that sources are arguments, not answers, through the death of William Rufus in the New Forest. The teacher has built a branching Form: it presents a source, chronicle, chronicler's background, or later account, and asks a decision question. Is this eyewitness or hearsay? Does the writer gain from the king's death? Each answer routes the pair to a different next source, and by the end different pairs have walked different evidence trails and reached different verdicts on accident versus murder.
The plenary puts two pairs with opposite verdicts at the front to retrace their routes, which lands the lesson's real point: the verdict depends on the reliability decisions made on the way. The previous version used envelopes of source cards and a flowchart on the board.
Tools: Microsoft Forms
Sutori timeline walk-through with embedded sorting checks
Year 8 begin their Industrial Revolution unit with chronology, because every later lesson leans on it. The teacher has built the spine in Sutori: fourteen events from the flying shuttle to the Factory Act, each with a two-sentence entry and an image. Students scroll the timeline on their own devices, and at four checkpoints the timeline pauses for a sorting task, three events dragged into order, before the next section opens.
The final task turns the timeline off and asks students to rebuild the five turning points from memory in their books, then check against the screen. The teacher's version of this lesson for the previous decade was an A3 printed timeline and a comprehension worksheet; the Sutori version is the same read-and-order work with the checking built in.
Tools: Sutori
Seneca recap on long-term causes before the causation essay
Year 9 write their causation essay on the First World War next week, and the essays fail when the factual anchors are soft: which alliance held which powers, what the naval race numbers were, which crisis came first. The teacher sets a Seneca assignment on the four long-term causes. Students work through short explanation screens and typed recall, and every dropped answer cycles back before the assignment closes.
In the next lesson, the teacher puts four essay-planning questions on the board that deliberately reuse the recalled anchors, so students feel the recap paying into the essay. The assignment replaces the pack of revision cards and the self-test in pairs the department used to run, which worked well for the students who did it honestly and not at all for the ones who flipped the cards early.
Tools: Seneca Learning
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