Presentation tool. Used in many lessons but rarely transformative; usually sits in CA when students build the deck themselves.
Creative Amplify (CA)
Multimedia book report with embedded research
Each student builds a six-slide book report on a class novel. Slides include: a chosen cover image with rationale, a character mood-board with three image choices, a key-passage slide with embedded student-recorded audio of them reading aloud, a setting slide with research images, a thematic slide with a one-line thesis, and a recommendation slide. They present to the class for three minutes each.
Tools: Google Sites, PowerPoint
Passive Replace (PR)
Rhetorical devices slide-deck recap before persuasive writing
The unit on persuasive writing started two lessons ago with a teacher-led introduction to rhetorical devices. Today is a 30-minute recap before students start their own writing next lesson. The teacher walks through a five-slide PowerPoint: one slide each on ethos, pathos and logos, plus two slides showing how a single sentence shifts when each device is added. Students follow on their iPads, with the slides shared via the LMS so they can scroll back as needed.
The lesson ends with a six-question Microsoft Forms quiz. Each question shows a short sentence and asks students to identify which device is doing the heavy lifting. The teacher reviews the live class results in the last three minutes and re-explains anything that produced under 60% correct.
Tools: PowerPoint, Microsoft Forms
Causes of WW1 slide-deck recap before source work
Year 9 have been studying the causes of the First World War for three lessons. Today is a 25-minute recap before next lesson, when they will analyse a German political cartoon as a source. The teacher walks through a six-slide PowerPoint covering the four MAIN causes (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism) plus the assassination as the trigger.
The deck is shared on the LMS. Each slide includes one date, one statistic and one image. Students follow on their iPads and copy a one-line summary of each cause into their exercise books. The teacher checks summaries by walking the room in the last five minutes.
Tools: PowerPoint
Walkthrough of multiplying fractions on PowerPoint
The class is at the start of a fractions unit. Today is a 35-minute teacher-led demonstration before next lesson's independent practice. The teacher has built a 12-slide PowerPoint with five worked examples of fraction multiplication, each one slightly more complex than the last (proper times proper, proper times improper, mixed times proper, simplifying first, then a word problem).
The deck is shared on the LMS. Students follow on their iPads while the teacher narrates each step. After each worked example, the next slide shows a similar question with the workings hidden; students attempt it in their books before the teacher reveals the answer. The lesson is essentially a guided demonstration the students can scroll back through later.
Tools: PowerPoint
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.