Teaching Slides for Teachers
Cut your lesson planning time in half with Google Slides, PowerPoints and teaching slide templates created by teachers for teachers!
Download hundreds of ready-made lessons and presentations already formatted in Google Slides so they will integrate seamlessly with your district LMS to supplement instruction in ELA, science, math, social studies and more!
Each curriculum-aligned slide deck template in this collection has undergone rigorous review by our team of 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.
Curious about how to add classroom slides to your lesson plans? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Is a Slide Deck?
Maybe you call them teaching presentations? Maybe you call them slideshows or classroom slides? 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 or to present information to parents or students.
Our teaching slides or slide decks are designed with teachers' various needs in mind so you'll find Google Slides, which can also be easily used by Microsoft PowerPoint users.
Our slide decks for elementary teachers are easy to customize to differentiate 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 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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How Soil Is Created – Teaching Presentation
Learn about how soil is made with this 15-slide teaching presentation.
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Introduction to Multiplication Strategies Teaching Slides
Introduce your students to different multiplication strategies such as arrays, equal groups, repeated addition and skip counting with this 34-page slide deck.
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Representing Unit Fraction & Whole Number Division – Instructional Slide Deck and Notes
Teach your students how to divide a whole number by a fraction and divide a fraction by a whole number with this instructional slide deck and accompanying student notes.
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Ng Digraph Lesson Resource Pack
Introduce students to the ng digraph with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.
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Multiplication and Division Fact Families Teaching Presentation
Introduce your students to multiplication and division fact families with this 18-page editable instructional slide deck.
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences PowerPoint
A 23-slide editable PowerPoint template that introduces simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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What are Natural Resources - Instructional Slide Deck
Explore natural resources, where they come from, and how we use them with an instructional slide deck.
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Daily Grammar - Sentence Structure Warm-Ups – Grades 3 and 4
An engaging 40-slide interactive Google Slides deck to use in grades 3 and 4 when learning about grammar and sentence structure.
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Branches of Government For Kids - Instructional Slides
Teach your students the roles and responsibilities of the three branches of the United States government with an instructional slide deck.
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Rounding Numbers - Instructional Slide Deck
Teach the basics of rounding numbers with this engaging and animated PowerPoint.
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Idioms: What Are They and What Do They Mean? PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching idioms.
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Types of Verbs PowerPoint Presentation
A 26 slide PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching various types of verbs.
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Ch Digraph Lesson Resource Pack
Introduce students to the ch digraph with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.
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Persuade Me Opinion Writing Prompts
Encourage students to write opinion texts with these engaging task cards or teaching slides.
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Properties of Soil Teaching Slides
Explore the properties of sand, silt, loam and clay with this comprehensive set of teaching slides.
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Compensation Strategy for Addition Interactive Slide Deck
Teach your students to use the compensation strategy for addition with an interactive teaching slide deck.
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Compensation Strategy for Subtraction – Teaching Slides
Teach your students to use the compensation strategy for subtraction with an interactive teaching slide deck.
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Types of Poems - Instructional PowerPoint
A 28 slide editable PowerPoint template the use when introducing students to structured forms of poetry.
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Financial Literacy for Kids - Instructional Slide Deck
Teach your students the ins and outs of financial literacy with an instructional slide deck.
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Examining Female Gender Stereotypes PowerPoint
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when examining female gender stereotypes with your students.
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Learn to Read Short A - Daily Phonics for Kids
Teach your students to read short a words with a daily digital phonics instructional slide deck.
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Introduction to Emotions Teaching Slides
Teach your students to understand and manage their emotions with this comprehensive teaching presentation for your social-emotional learning lessons.
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3rd Grade Personal Identity Slide Deck (What Makes Me Me?)
Explore what makes each student an individual and help them explore their own identity with this set of teaching slides.
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Lines of Symmetry Teaching Slides
Introduce your students to the concept of lines of symmetry using this comprehensive and easy-to-understand 12-slide teaching presentation!
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Odd and Even Numbers PowerPoint
A 23-slide interactive PowerPoint to use when introducing odd and even numbers to your students.
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Dealing with Bullying Teaching Slides
Teach your students about bullying and being resilient with an interactive slide deck.
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Summarizing Nonfiction Teaching Slides
Build summarizing skills with nonfiction texts using these teaching slides.
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Split Strategy for Subtraction – Interactive Teaching Slides
Demonstrate using the split strategy for subtraction with an instructional slide presentation.
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Compatible Numbers for Subtraction – Slide Deck
Teach your students to use compatible numbers as a subtraction strategy with an interactive slide deck.
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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text — Instructional Slide Deck
Build skills in identifying main idea and details in nonfiction texts with an instructional slide deck for primary grades.
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Natural Resource Use - Instructional Slide Deck
Explore how natural resources are used by humans in the 21st century with an instructional slide deck.
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Jump Strategy for Subtraction – Interactive Teaching Slides
Teach your students to subtract two-digit numbers using the jump strategy with an instructional teaching presentation.