Microsoft's presentation tool. Supports co-authoring, recorded narration, embedded media and slide-by-slide presenting.
Creative Amplify
Each student builds a six-slide PowerPoint report on Michael Morpurgo's 'Private Peaceful', including an audio clip of themselves reading a key passage.
Creative Replace
Each student photographs a lino print at six stages, from first drawing to final print, and sets the photos out in order in PowerPoint with a caption explaining each decision.
Each student plans a ten-minute warm-up for a Grade 6 netball lesson on a one-slide PowerPoint template, ordering activities so heart rate rises gradually, and the plans are printed and marked.
Creative Transform
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
Interactive Replace
Pairs work through a teacher-built PowerPoint dichotomous key, clicking Yes or No at each question, to name ten pond invertebrates from photographs.
Students drag label boxes and arrows onto four cell images in their own copy of a PowerPoint file, removing the labels that do not belong, and hand it in for marking.
Passive Amplify
Grade 6 watch the teacher's narrated PowerPoint, exported as a video, that traces blood through the heart with a recorded heartbeat, pausing at three points to sketch the route.
The teacher explains specific heat capacity from a slide deck with PowerPoint's live subtitles running, so every student, including those new to English, can read each sentence on screen as it is spoken.
Passive Replace
The teacher runs an animated PowerPoint that follows one web page request from a school laptop to a server and back, while Grade 7 label a network diagram in their books.
Students follow a teacher-written model letter arguing for a longer lunch break, shown a paragraph at a time on PowerPoint slides, and log each persuasive device in a table in their books.
Grade 7 meet Blake's 'A Poison Tree' one stanza per slide, writing a prediction in their books before each reveal, and end by explaining how the growing tree stands for the speaker's hidden anger.
The teacher talks Grade 7 through five slides on ethos, pathos and logos before they draft their own persuasive speeches.
The teacher talks through a PowerPoint of eight photographs taken around the school, from a drying puddle to a misted window, and children copy and label the cycle in their books.
Grade 7 follow a teacher-led slide story of the steam engine from Newcomen's mine pump of 1712 to Watt's rotary engine of the 1780s, noting each problem and its fix, then explain why mills could leave the riverbank.
The teacher recaps militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism and the Sarajevo assassination on six slides, and Grade 8 summarise and rank the causes in their books.
The teacher narrates five worked examples of multiplying fractions on a PowerPoint that students follow on their iPads, trying a matching question in their books after each one.
The teacher tells the parable of the lost sheep from Luke 15 using eight illustrated slides, and the class then talks about how the shepherd felt and why the story matters to Christians.
Before lighting any flame, Grade 6 watch the technician's five-minute safety video on the board and answer the teacher's spoken safety questions.
Grade 7 follow a teacher-led slide story of Joseph Priestley's and Jan Ingenhousz's experiments, predicting each result in their books before it is revealed, and end by building the word equation from what the experiments showed.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.