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Creative Amplify

Grade 10 write a Grade 9 revision guide on the nth term of quadratic sequences

Grade 10 (Year 11, age 15 to 16) · 50 min · 1 device per student

Creative Amplify

Students write a one-page revision guide for Grade 9 on finding the nth term of a quadratic sequence, with their own worked example and practice questions, and Gemini on hand to explain a step.

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Creative Transform

Grade 11 practice corpus study of AI-written and published film review openings

Grade 11 (Year 12, age 16 to 17) · 150 min · 1 device per group of 3

Creative Transform

Over three lessons, groups build a corpus of 20 Gemini-written film review openings, code it against 20 published openings, and write up what the data shows about machine-written reviews.

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Grade 12 critique of an AI translation of the opening of L'Étranger

Grade 12 (Year 13, age 17 to 18) · 180 min · 1 device per student

Creative Transform

Students translate the opening of Camus's L'Étranger themselves, generate a set of Gemini translations under briefs they design, and write a commentary on which choices the machine makes every time and which shift.

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Interactive Replace

Grade 8 respiration self-quiz with Gemini writing questions from their own notes

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 45 min · 1 device per student

Interactive Replace

Students paste their own typed notes on respiration into Gemini, ask for ten questions with no answers, type their answers from memory in a new Doc and mark themselves against their notes.

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Interactive Transform

Students judge twelve teacher-written emails as phishing or genuine, ask Gemini for its verdict and reasons, and test every reason against what the email actually shows.

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Each student asks Gemini why Germany suffered hyperinflation in 1923, breaks its answer into separate claims, and rules on each one using the class source pack.

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Pairs question Gemini about three historians of the English Reformation, try it with repeated and leading questions, and check every claim and quotation against extracts in a shared reliability log.

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Grade 11 checking Gemini's summary of Aquinas' first three Ways against the Summa

Grade 11 (Year 12, age 16 to 17) · 60 min · 1 device per student

Interactive Transform

Students ask Gemini to summarise the first three of Aquinas' Five Ways and test each sentence against the text of Summa Theologiae I, question 2, article 3.

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Passive Amplify

Grade 8 read the story of the langar in versions matched to their reading level

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 50 min · Teacher device, printed and on-screen versions

Passive Amplify

Each student reads the same account of Guru Nanak, Guru Amar Das and the langar, in one of three versions the teacher prepared with Gemini at different reading levels, plus a checked Polish version for a student new to English.

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This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.