A shared digital whiteboard in Microsoft 365. Students add sticky notes, drawings and images to the same board from their own devices.

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Analysing a poem: every pair's reading of 'crawls' in Tennyson's 'The Eagle' on one shared board

Grade 7 (Year 8, age 12 to 13) · 50 min · 1 device per pair, plus teacher device and projector

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Every pair posts what one word of Tennyson's 'The Eagle' makes them picture on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard board, and the teacher groups the notes so the class can see where its readings disagree.

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Grade 3 artefact era sort on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard

Grade 3 (Year 4, age 8 to 9) · 40 min · 1 device per pair

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Pairs drag twelve artefact pictures into five era columns in their own area of one class whiteboard, and the class debates the artefacts pairs placed differently.

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Grade 6 sort French words into themes on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard

Grade 6 (Year 7, age 11 to 12) · 40 min · 1 device per student

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Each student places two French words in theme areas on one class Microsoft Whiteboard, and the teacher turns the words that land in different areas into speaking practice.

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Comparing salah, the Lord's Prayer and Buddhist meditation on a shared whiteboard

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 45 min · 1 device per student, working in groups of 3-4

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Groups sort sticky notes about three practices into Venn diagrams on one Microsoft Whiteboard, and the teacher zooms out to compare every group's choices.

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Grade 7 Parsons puzzles on Microsoft Whiteboard with one distractor line each

Grade 7 (Year 8, age 12 to 13) · 45 min · 1 device per pair

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Pairs drag shuffled pseudocode lines into working order for three algorithms on a shared Microsoft Whiteboard, spotting the one line in each puzzle that belongs to no correct solution.

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Pairs drag twelve shuffled sentences from a persuasive letter to the council back into order on a Microsoft Whiteboard, then label the job each paragraph does.

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Pairs drag sixteen sequence cards into arithmetic, geometric and other columns on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then find the nth term of every arithmetic one.

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Groups drag twelve animal pictures into four habitat zones on their own copy of a Microsoft Whiteboard board, adding a sticky note that gives one reason each animal is suited to where it lives.

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Pairs drag nine leaf-feature cards onto nine function cards on a Microsoft Whiteboard board, then place each matched pair on a cross-section of a leaf.

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Area and perimeter: follow the teacher's worked example of an L-shaped garden with two missing sides

Grade 4 (Year 5, age 9 to 10) · 45 min · Teacher device and interactive board

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Grade 4 follow the teacher's worked example of an L-shaped garden, 12 m by 9 m with a corner cut out, drawn in Microsoft Whiteboard on the board, copy it into their books, then answer six textbook questions.

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The teacher drags photographs of twelve everyday materials, from a brick to the bubbles in a fizzy drink, into three columns on the board after Grade 3 have each decided solid, liquid or gas on mini whiteboards.

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