PE is taught in a hall or on a field, and a device earns its place there only if it helps students move better or understand what their bodies are doing.
Slow motion does the first job. Year 8 film sprint starts for peer feedback on a private Padlet. Reception children film each other's two-footed jumps and change the next jump because of what they saw.
Data does the second. A Year 8 class charts its pulse rates live in a shared sheet. The teacher's own heart rate is graphed live during a step test. Students predict an interval session's heart-rate curve in Desmos before they run it.
Many of the lessons here come from one Year 8 unit, so you can see the same objective in every cell: heart rate and exercise, taught nine ways.
Creative Amplify
Pairs film a cool-down routine and turn it into a 90-second narrated video in Adobe Express explaining why heart rate should fall gradually, for Grade 6 tutors to show.
Creative Replace
Each student plans a ten-minute warm-up for a Grade 6 netball lesson on a one-slide PowerPoint template, ordering activities so heart rate rises gradually, and the plans are printed and marked.
Creative Transform
Pairs program a micro:bit pacer that beats out a step rate and shows a model heart whose beat rises and recovers by rules they write, then test the model against their own pulses in a step test and rewrite its rules.
Interactive Amplify
Pairs film each other's crouch starts in slow motion, post their best clip to a class-only Padlet, and comment on classmates' clips against set coaching points.
Each student sketches how heart rate will change across a described interval session on a Desmos sketch screen, and the teacher overlays the class's sketches anonymously to pick out misconceptions before a short practical.
Each student sets out a formation to protect a late 1-0 lead on their own pitch on a shared FigJam board, and the teacher groups the approaches live.
AQA GCSE PE students practise the three lever classes on an adaptive Seneca assignment, and the teacher uses the live results to split the room between exam questions and a body-lever demonstration table.
In groups of three with an adult, children film each other's jumps from a low step in slow motion, watch their knees and feet on the replay, and try again to land softly on two feet.
Interactive Replace
Pairs drag five unlabelled heart-rate graphs onto the sports they came from, a 100 m sprint, a marathon, a football match, a yoga class and a boxing bout, on a FigJam board and justify each match.
Interactive Transform
A sports scientist runs a treadmill test on a volunteer athlete in a university lab over a staff-hosted Teams call, and Grade 7 decide when the speed rises and predict each heart-rate and breathing reading before it is read out.
Passive Amplify
Before practising underarm throws at hoops, children watch a short coaching clip at half speed on the hall screen, paused at step, swing, release and follow-through, and hold each position as a statue.
Before their first circuit, students watch a clip on how the heart responds to exercise in Edpuzzle, at their own pace, with the teacher's recorded voice notes at five points linking it to the circuit.
Passive Replace
The teacher shows a short animation on how the heart and lungs respond to exercise, students copy the key terms, and then each learns to find and count their own pulse.
Passive Transform
The PE teacher wears a chest-strap heart-rate monitor linked to phyphox and does a three-minute step test while the class watches the live graph climb, level off and fall on the board.
Lessons that look Passive Transform but sit in another
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 grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.