Passive Replace (PR) sits at the Passive row and Replace column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Geography lessons for KS3 that classify as PR, plus anti-examples that look PR but are not.

Listening to a podcast on a country

Year 8 · 25 min · 1 device per student or class display

Class listens to a 12-minute podcast on a country (e.g. life in modern Iceland, megacity development in Lagos). Students take notes in books.

Tools: Spotify

Reading a Bitesize geography textbook page on iPad

Year 8 · 30 min · 1 device per student

Students read a Bitesize page on population distribution patterns on their iPad. The teacher highlights three key terms at the start. Students take notes in their books.

Watching a Bitesize geography video clip

Year 9 · 25 min · Class display

The class watches a 10-minute Bitesize video on river formations. Students take notes in books.

Tools: YouTube

Lessons that look PR 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.