Microsoft's chat and video-meeting platform. Lessons here use staff-hosted meetings with a partner school or visiting expert. Keep calls on school accounts, hosted and supervised by staff.
Creative Amplify
Over four lessons, a Grade 12 class interviews four faith practitioners in staff-hosted video calls, analyses anonymised transcripts against A-level content and builds a shared study on a school-only Google Site.
Creative Transform
Groups of four, two students from each of two schools, write one Python number-guessing game over a staff-hosted Teams call, passing the driver role between schools every ten minutes.
Over five lessons, a Grade 8 Spanish class and a partner class in Seville learning English build a photo essay on the school day, rewriting each caption in response to the other class's replies.
Grade 11 and a partner Gymnasium class in Leipzig answer the same anonymous survey on digital life, and the UK students write a German analysis of the differences that the Leipzig class then challenges and corrects.
Interactive Amplify
After both schools have measured a local river, a Grade 10 class pools its channel data with a partner school's in one sheet, tests both rivers against the Bradshaw model and questions the other class's methods.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On a January morning, Grade 1 read the playground thermometer at the same moment as a partner class in Nairobi, then compare readings, clothes and questions on a staff-hosted Teams call.
Students at a UK school and a partner school in Accra log the labels of their own clothes in one shared sheet and each describe their own end of the second-hand clothing chain, so both classes can trace where clothes are made, worn and resold.
For the last two weeks of January, a UK class and a partner class in Cape Town take the same noon shadow and temperature readings into one shared sheet, then use the data to explain opposite seasons.
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.
Students test six textbook claims about French school life against anonymous survey answers from a real partner class in France, then question that class live in French.
In a staff-hosted Teams call, Grade 7 ask a partner class in Vienna whether they really say the Austrian words their textbook lists, such as Jänner, Paradeiser and Sackerl, and tally the answers.
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.
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