Live polling and questioning. Students answer on their own devices and the results appear on the board as they come in, so the teacher can respond to the spread of answers there and then.
Creative Amplify
During the summer show, each student duplicates their Procreate painting every day and paints two rival next stages from the same point, visitors vote between them in Mentimeter, and the winner becomes the base for the next day.
Interactive Amplify
Students rank three crops of a still-life photo on Mentimeter, and the teacher opens the discussion on the crop that divides the class most.
Students vote on which of three search algorithms is most efficient, test each in Scratch on growing lists, chart the class's comparison counts and vote again.
Students vote on the best search method for one lookup and for ten thousand lookups in an unsorted list, and the teacher uses the split to expose the cost of sorting.
Students vote on Mrs Johnstone's motivation, watch the two most popular readings performed, then vote again.
Students rate eight quotations from Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 5 Scene 1 on a Mentimeter scale from in control to losing control, and the class argues over the lines where the live averages are contested.
Students commit to one of three readings of Beatrice Garland's Kamikaze on Mentimeter, defend it in pairs, debate, and re-poll to see who changed their mind.
Students vote on the future of Happisburgh's coastline, post stakeholder arguments to a Padlet, then re-vote before the teacher shows the actual plan.
After each of five moments in the July Crisis, Grade 8 rate six powers' responsibility on a Mentimeter scale, and the teacher uses the shifts and splits to choose which arguments the class has next.
Students rate how useful a First World War recruitment poster is for an enquiry, then rate it again once the teacher reveals who made it and why.
A Grade 10 class and a partner school hold a mock hearing on who caused the war in 1914, with advocates, witnesses in role, cross-examiners and a jury drawn from both classes.
Students rate the reliability of John Reed's eyewitness account on a Mentimeter scale, the teacher re-teaches provenance from the spread, and students rate again.
Students predict three probability outcomes on Mentimeter, run 1,000 trials of each in a Google Sheets simulator, and pool the class's results to see which predictions held up.
Students vote for the best conclusion to a binomial hypothesis test, defend their choice in pairs on a Padlet, and re-vote after the teacher tackles the misconceptions.
A Grade 8 German class argues in German and a partner Gymnasium class argues in English on whether schools should have uniforms, with every student in a role and judges scoring each speech live.
Students rate three melodies over the same chords for how singable they are and how well they fit a lullaby, then sing the one that splits the class.
Students answer the same bullying scenario twice in anonymous polls, once for what a friend should do and once for what most people would do, and discuss the gap.
Students place themselves on an agreement scale about forgiveness, meet Christian teaching on it, then place themselves again and compare the two results.
Two sixth forms hold an Oxford-style debate on assisted dying with mixed-school teams, and a Mentimeter vote before and after shows which side changed the most minds.
Grade 7 vote in Mentimeter on where most of an oak tree's mass came from, meet van Helmont's willow experiment, argue in pairs and vote again, while the teacher uses both results to steer the rest of the lesson.
Students vote on hard electrolysis questions, and the share of correct votes decides whether the teacher moves on, sets a neighbour discussion or reteaches.
Students rank four answers to an A-level chemistry 'suggest' question by expected marks, then compare the class ranking with the marks each answer earns against the mark scheme.
Interactive Transform
A city Grade 6 class and a Grade 6 class at a partner school in Keswick rank the same ten arguments about wind turbines on the Lake District fells, then compare rankings on a staff-hosted Teams call to find out how much the audience decides what persuades.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.