Google's word processor. Several people can write in the same document at once, leave comments and suggestions, and see the version history.
Creative Amplify
Students draft a 150-word persuasive paragraph in a shared class Doc, three named peers comment using a fixed frame, and each writer revises before the bell.
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.
Creative Replace
Each student types a three-paragraph answer in their own Google Doc on how Shelley presents power in 'Ozymandias', following 'what, how, why' with one quotation in every paragraph.
Each student writes a one-page memo to Asquith, dated 2 August 1914, arguing for or against British intervention from the evidence in the source pack.
Creative Transform
Groups write two rival openings for a bulletin article urging pupils to use the new water refill stations, test them on around 200 pupils at a partner school in another town through an anonymous Microsoft Forms survey, and rewrite from the results and from that school's comments on their drafts.
Students count sentences carrying two semantic fields of their choice across the whole of A Christmas Carol in Google Sheets, chart the results stave by stave and build an argument from them.
Over five lessons, a class studying the American West and a partner class in California build a joint site comparing how Britain saw the Gold Rush in 1849 with how Californians remember it today, each side revising its pages to answer the other's questions.
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.
Students work with the census population of all 183 municipalities in the province of Soria since 1900, sort and chart the losses, and write a data-led article in Spanish around what they find.
Interactive Amplify
Students comment on the attributes of a trip-booking table that break 2NF or 3NF, and the plenary starts from the attributes the class disagrees on.
Two named peers comment on each student's practice library-loans code in a shared Doc, and writers fix the flagged lines in Replit and rerun the teacher's tests.
Students comment on one page of Act 3 of The Crucible with the choices they would make as director, and the teacher stages the most contested moment.
The class splits into three groups and each student comments on rhetorical devices in one shared Google Doc per speech, ready for a plenary comparison.
Students comment on the most and least convincing lines of an extract about Bangladesh's garment industry, reply to classmates who disagree, and the plenary runs from the longest threads.
Pairs record a 60-second Mote voice comment analysing extracts from Scheidemann's speech, and the teacher plays contrasting ones back and replies by voice.
A Grade 11 class and a partner sixth form studying the same ethics paper annotate one euthanasia scenario through natural law and situation ethics, then test each other's strongest annotations in a live call.
Interactive Replace
Students trace three short Python programs line by line, recording each variable's value in trace tables in their own copy of a Google Doc, which the teacher marks for the next lesson.
Students annotate the Inspector's 'fire and blood and anguish' speech in their own Google Doc with the pace, pause, volume, gesture and movement they would use as the actor.
Students annotate William Blake's The Tyger in their own Google Doc, using four highlight colours for questions, repetition, fire imagery and forge imagery, then draft a paragraph on what the questions do.
Each student colour-codes the ten demands of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum by how Serbia answered them, adds margin comments, and judges whether the ultimatum was written to be rejected.
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.
Interactive Transform
Grade 8 and a partner class in Vienna each read their own country's newspapers from three days in 1914, share translations in a Google Doc, and question each other's readings on a staff-hosted Teams call.
A Grade 10 class and a partner class in Germany annotate extracts from each other's history textbooks on Versailles, compare their own judgements of the treaty, and question each other about how they were taught it.
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.
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.
Passive Amplify
The teacher steps through eight saved drafts of a persuasive paragraph in Google Docs version history, so the class watches a flat opening become a sharp one change by change.
Students follow Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners' in a Google Doc and listen through the teacher's Mote voice notes, one reading the whole poem and one on each section, before writing about who the listeners are.
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.
Students read a teacher-written Google Doc on the carbon cycle and listen to a short Mote voice note from the teacher beside each of its four diagrams, before drawing the cycle from memory in their books.
Passive Replace
Grade 8 read a Google Doc of worked examples on binary, denary and hexadecimal conversion, doing each matching question in their books.
Grade 7 read a two-page Google Doc on why people live where they do, then shade a world outline map in their books to show dense and sparse regions.
Grade 7 read a 250-word French text on a Lyon teenager's daily routine on their iPads, then answer comprehension questions and find the reflexive verbs in their books.
Grade 7 open the cells and microscopy knowledge organiser as a view-only Google Doc, cover the definitions and test themselves on 15 keywords before a written exit ticket.
Grade 8 read a four-page atomic structure chapter as a Google Doc, make notes in their books, then answer six questions set on the board.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.