Teaching Slides for Teachers
Cut your lesson planning time in half with teaching slides created by teachers for teachers! Download hundreds of ready-made lessons created in Google slides or PowerPoint so they integrate seamlessly with your district LMS to supplement instruction in English, science, maths, HASS and more!
Each curriculum-aligned slide deck template in this collection has undergone rigorous review by our expert teachers to ensure it's classroom-ready, so you don't have to spend hours fact-checking, spell-checking and making major edits to make it work for your students.
What Is a Slide Deck?
Maybe you call them teaching presentations? Maybe you call them slideshows? Or maybe you're more familiar with the term PowerPoint. A slide deck is a series of slides used as a visual aid while you're teaching a lesson.
Our slide decks are designed with teachers' various needs in mind so you'll find Google Slides which can also be used by Microsoft PowerPoint users.
Oh, and did we mention that these slide decks for primary teachers are easy to customise? Make simple edits to differentiate instruction for your individual students' needs and include important definitions, explanations of key concepts, review questions and activities, links to additional worksheets and much more.
4 Ways to Use Google Slides in Your Classroom
So, how do you use Google Slides in the classroom? We realize this may sound obvious ... you use them to teach a lesson, of course.
But there are countless additional ways to make use of this tool that you may not already have in your plans, so let's dive in.
- After a lesson is complete, add your teaching slides to your students' Google Classroom. This way students who were absent can review the slides to catch up, and even students who were in class that day can use them as a reference tool.
- Send slides to parents. Parents often reach out, asking how they can help their children who are struggling to comprehend a particular topic. This is where teacher slides come in handy. You can easily email a link to parents so that they can review the content with their kids.
- Use Google Slides to flip your classroom. Are you trying a flipped classroom approach? Send your Google Slides out to students!
- Use Google Slides with small groups. You don't have to limit your slide deck presentations to whole class instruction. This format is also perfect for reviewing content with your small groups.
How Do You Use Google Slides in Google Classroom?
The best part about our step-by-step instructions for using Google Slides in Google Classroom is that there isn’t any time spent explaining the 'how to' in regards to the design and creation of Google Slides. That’s because we’ve already done the hard work for you with our collection of beautifully designed Google Slides ready to go!
All you have to do is:
- Download the Google Slide resource.
- Make a copy.
- Create an assignment in Google Classroom.
- Add the Google Slide from your Google Drive.
- Make a copy for each student.
- Assign!
What Are the Benefits of Using Google Slides in the Classroom?
With templates designed by teachers and rigorously reviewed by the expert teachers on the Teach Starter team, you'll find slides for just about everything you can think of in your classroom and then some. Here are some of the great benefits you'll quickly find!
Google Slides are easy to grade — you can grade from anywhere ... even your own kids' after-school practice!
- With Google Slides, it's easy to tell when kids are missing work.
- Because of the digital nature, parents can easily see their students' assignments.
- There's increased accountability.
- There are extra supports in place for a teacher when parents question a student's grade.
- You can quickly shift from in-person to remote learning when necessary.
- Individual pages in Google Slides can be downloaded as documents, PDFs, jpgs, and in other formats so you can easily print and edit!
- Our students are growing up in an increasingly digital world, and the use of slides — along side good, old-fashioned paper and pencil — will help prepare them for using technology tools in their future.
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Australian Gold Rush: Melting Pot – Teaching Presentation
A 10-slide teaching presentation that explores immigration and diversity during the Australian Gold Rush and how it shaped the multicultural Australia we know today.
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Visual Arts Elements Space PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 28 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating space in Visual Art.
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Rhyme and Shuffle – PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise producing rhyming words.
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Artistic Movements Teaching Presentation – Cubism
A 44-slide editable PowerPoint template exploring the famous artists and signature artistic techniques of the Cubist movement.
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Statement, Question, Command, Exclamation PowerPoint
A 14-slide editable PowerPoint template that introduces the attributes of statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
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Which Holds More? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive PowerPoint quiz that asks students to compare the capacity of various containers.
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The World's Continents and Oceans – Teaching Presentation
Explore the seven continents and five oceans of the world with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Visual Arts Elements Colour PowerPoint – Lower Years
An 18-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating colour in Visual Art.
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4-Digit Place Value Warm Up - Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use when learning about place value to 4-digits.
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Everyday Grammar Punctuation Warm Ups - Middle Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the middle years classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.
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Human Features of Australia PowerPoint
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when studying the human features of Australia.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Monitoring
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Cars
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint - Foundation
A 40 slide PowerPoint Template for introducing new vocabulary to foundation students.
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Jack and the Beanstalk (Made Differently!) PowerPoint
A 16 slide teaching presentation to use when exploring the properties of materials.
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Summarising Fiction Texts Teaching Slides
Build summarising skills with fiction texts using these teaching slides.
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Ph Digraph Lesson Resource Pack
Introduce students to the ph digraph with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.
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Bills and Laws in Australia Teaching Slides
Discover how bills become Australian law with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Our Home, Australia: Teaching Presentation
Familiarise your students with the six states and two territories of Australia with this informative teaching presentation.
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Types of Soil – Teaching Presentation
Practise identifying different types of soil with this 18-slide teaching presentation.
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Australian Gold Rush: A Golden Democracy – Teaching Presentation
A 13-slide teaching presentation about the political struggles gold miners faced in their efforts to obtain wealth.
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The Force of Friction Teaching Slides
Teach your students facts about friction with this comprehensive and age-appropriate teaching presentation for primary school science lessons.
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Maths Warm Ups Interactive PowerPoint - Year 1
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm up activities for Year 1 students across the curriculum.
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Dictation Passages PowerPoint - Year 3
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint Template which can be used for a range of dictation activities.
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Dictation Passages PowerPoint - Year 5
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint Template which can be used for a range of dictation activities.
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Inference vs Prediction - Presentation
A teaching presentation outlining the similarities and differences between inference and prediction.
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Mountain Ranges of Australia - Teaching Presentation
Explore Australia's mountain ranges with this 14-slide editable teaching presentation.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint - Year 3
A 40 slide PowerPoint Template for introducing new vocabulary to year 3 students.
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Paragraph of the Week PowerPoint - Persuasive Paragraphs
A Paragraph of the Week PowerPoint presentation to use when setting up this writing strategy in your classroom.
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Multiplication Facts PowerPoint - Eleven Times Tables
A 30 slide PowerPoint to use when learning about multiplication.
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Multiplying Decimals by Decimals Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to multiply decimals by decimals using three different strategies using this step-by-step teaching presentation for Year 7 students.
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Compare and Order Decimals Teaching Slides
Teach your students to compare and order decimals with this 19-slide instructional slide deck.