Shared digital whiteboard. Each student or pair drags cards onto frames the whole class can scroll and discuss.
Sound-to-picture matching on shared whiteboard
Each small group has a Jamboard frame with a row of pictures (cat, hat, mat, sun, fan, cap) and a row of phoneme cards. Children drag each phoneme card to the picture it matches. The teacher displays all groups' frames on the IWB and the class compares choices, with the teacher correcting any mismatches as a class.
Tools: Jamboard
Emotion labels dragged onto poem lines
Each student gets their own Jamboard frame with the same poem displayed and a row of emotion-word stickers (joyful, anxious, hopeful, weary, defiant). They drag the stickers onto specific lines. The class scrolls all thirty frames and the teacher highlights any line where students placed contrasting emotions, asking three students to explain.
Tools: Jamboard
Causation factor weights on a shared diagram
Each student gets their own Jamboard frame with five named factors that contributed to a historical event (e.g. for the outbreak of WWI: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, the assassination). They drag each factor onto a 1-to-5 weight scale on the frame, justifying with a one-line note. The class scrolls all thirty frames and the teacher highlights factors that students weighted very differently.
Tools: Jamboard
Fractions equivalence sorting on a shared whiteboard
Each student gets a stack of digital fraction cards (e.g. 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 1/3, 2/6) on their own frame of a shared class Jamboard. They drag each card into one of three equivalence groups. In the plenary, the class scrolls all thirty frames; the teacher highlights any student who placed a card differently from the rest, asking them to explain their reasoning.
Tools: Jamboard
Coordinates plotting on a shared whiteboard
Each student gets their own frame of a shared class Jamboard with an empty four-quadrant grid. The teacher dictates the vertices of a shape one at a time (e.g. (3,2), (-1,4), (-2,-3), (5,-1)). Students plot and connect on their own frame. The class scrolls all thirty frames in plenary; the teacher highlights any frame where a vertex landed in the wrong quadrant and asks the student to re-state the rule.
Tools: Jamboard
Vocab clusters on a Jamboard
Each student gets a stack of digital flashcards on their own Jamboard frame, with target-language words on one side and English on the other. They drag each card into one of four theme columns (food, family, school, hobbies). The class scrolls all frames; the teacher highlights any word that landed in different columns across students and asks for justification.
Tools: Jamboard
Tactics analysis on shared formation diagrams
Each student gets a Jamboard frame with the same blank pitch diagram (e.g. football, basketball or netball). They draw a formation that they think is most effective for a particular game scenario the teacher poses (e.g. defending a one-goal lead with five minutes to go). The class scrolls all formations and the teacher highlights the strongest tactical reasoning.
Tools: Jamboard
Comparative prayer practice annotation
Each student gets a Jamboard frame with descriptions of three different prayer or meditation practices (e.g. Islamic salah, Christian Lord's Prayer, Buddhist meditation). They annotate similarities and differences across the three. The class scrolls all frames and the teacher highlights patterns in what students notice.
Tools: Jamboard
Ecosystem food web building, class merge
Each student is given five organisms from a shared habitat (e.g. a temperate woodland). They build a partial food web on their own Jamboard frame. In the second half of the lesson, the class merges all frames into a single class web; the teacher highlights cross-web species (those that appear in multiple students' webs) and asks the class what role they likely play.
Tools: Jamboard
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.