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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Teaching Goods and Services Presentation
Teach your students to identify and describe examples of goods and services with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Types of Soil – Teaching Presentation
Practice identifying different types of soil with this 18-slide teaching presentation.
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Writing Out Loud: Dialogue Punctuation Teaching Presentation
Teach your students how to write dialogue correctly with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Memorial Day Teaching Presentation
Reflect and show respect on Memorial Day with this informative teaching presentation.
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Well-Being Self-Reflection Prompts PowerPoint
Make mental wellness check-ins a regular part of your day with our collection of 50 student self-reflection prompts.
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Google Interactive Sight Words - 1st Grade Dolch
Read, write, identify, and build all 41 Dolch first-grade sight words in an interactive Google Slides presentation.
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Kindergarten Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 1
Display this collection of warm-up activities for kindergarten with tasks related to literacy, math, art, and more.
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Kindergarten Daily Warm-Up - PowerPoint 3
Wake up kindergarten-level students with a new Math or English activity each day.
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Grade 1 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
Bring on the day’s lessons with math and English activities that get students excited about learning.
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Kindergarten Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 4
Start the school day with this 81-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of Reading and Math warm-up activities.
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Grade 2 Daily Warm-Up - PowerPoint 4
Warm-up your students' brains each day with this 68-slide PowerPoint containing a variety of quick activities.
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Who Is Ruby Bridges? – Shared Reading and Activity
Read along to learn about Ruby Bridges and her role in desegregation with this 14-slide PowerPoint presentation.
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Black History Month – Teaching Presentation
Introduce your students to the origins of Black History Month with this 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.
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Grade 6 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 3
A 70-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Writing Informative Texts – Teaching Presentation
A 33-slide, editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about informative writing.
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Brainstorming Techniques PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching various brainstorming techniques.
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All About Matter PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching about matter and its properties.
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Google Slides Meet the Teacher Template
Use this editable back to school Google Slides template for your Meet the Teacher or Back-to-School Parent Information event!
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What's a Hyperbole? PowerPoint
An editable 20-slide PowerPoint to use when teaching your students about hyperbole.
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Grade 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 72-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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States of Matter PowerPoint
An editable 22-slide PowerPoint to use when teaching students about the states of matter.
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Grade 5 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
An 85-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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A Historic Movement – Teaching Presentation
Introduce students to the people and events of the American civil rights movement with this 17-slide PowerPoint presentation.
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Grade 6 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 2
A 76-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Making Ten Teaching Slide Deck
A 14-slide PowerPoint that uses engaging animations to walk students through the 'making ten' addition strategy.
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Visual Arts Elements Line PowerPoint - Middle Years
A 29-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating line in Visual Art.
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Visual Arts Elements Line PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 28-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating line in Visual Art.
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Writing Biographical Texts PowerPoint
A 29-slide, editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching older students about the structure and language features of biographical texts.
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Who Is Martin Luther King, Jr? - Shared Reading and Activity
Use this 13-slide PowerPoint as a collaborative reading exercise about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Grade 4 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 1
A 70-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Grade 5 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 1
A 75-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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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 elementary school science lessons.