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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Decomposing Numbers - Subtraction Teaching Slides
Challenge students to decompose numbers to mentally solve two-digit subtraction problems with a teaching presentation.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm-Ups – Grades 3 and 4
A 39-slide editable PowerPoint to use when reviewing parts of speech with your students.
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Prefixes and Suffixes Slide Deck
Help your students determine the meanings of prefixes and suffixes with an instructional slide deck.
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Addition on a Number Line - Jump Strategy Slide Deck
Teach your students to add two-digit numbers using the jump strategy with an instructional teaching presentation.
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2D Shapes Similarities and Differences Presentation
This 18-slide deck supports teacher instruction to help enable students to identify similarities and differences between 2-D shapes.
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Fractions on a Number Line - Instructional Deck
Teach your students how to identify and work with fractions on a number line with an interactive, explicit instructional teaching presentation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms Presentation
Use this synonyms and antonyms presentation to expand your students’ vocabularies and teach them about the nuances between words.
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Comparing Fractions – Instructional Slide Deck
Teach your students about comparing fractions with like numerators or denominators by means of visual models, number lines, and mathematical reasoning.
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The World's Five Oceans - Instructional Slide Deck
Explore the world’s five oceans with this comprehensive slide deck.
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Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Teaching Presentation
Use this 19-slide editable slide deck when introducing addition and subtraction fact families to your students.
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What Causes the Seasons to Change? – Instructional Slide Deck
Explore what causes the seasons to change and learn about solstices and equinoxes with this 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.
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Introduction to Fractions – Interactive Instructional Slide Deck
Use this instructional slide deck to teach your students how to identify the parts of a fraction, determine equal and unequal parts, and use numerators and denominators to write fractions.
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Influential American Colonists - Instructional Slide Deck
Discover the beliefs and accomplishments of five famous American colonists with an interactive instructional slide deck.
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Order of Operations – Instructional Slide Deck
Teach your students how to correctly evaluate numerical expressions by using the order of operations with this instructional slide deck.
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Articles of Confederation - Lesson Plan Slide Presentation
Investigate the document made by those who wanted a "just right" government with an interactive teaching slide deck about the Articles of Confederation.
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Syllable Types - Instructional Slide Deck
Teach students about the six syllable types with this comprehensive interactive instructional slide deck.
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Rearranging Parts – Instructional Slide Deck
Learn how to decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way with this instructional slide deck.
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Composing and Decomposing Numbers - Instructional Slide Deck
Introduce composing and decomposing numbers to your students with this instructional slide deck.
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Forms of Poetry Teaching Slides
Explore the different forms of poetry with your students using this comprehensive and age-appropriate slide deck.
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The Holocaust Instructional Slide Deck
Lead your students through one of the darkest periods in human history with an instructional slide deck about the Holocaust.
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The World's Continents and Oceans Instructional Slide Deck
Explore the seven continents and five oceans of the world with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Rural, Urban, and Suburban Communities Slide Deck
Study the characteristics different types of communities (urban, rural, suburban) with an instructional slide deck.
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Figurative Languages Lesson - Slide Deck
Teach figurative language using our comprehensive instructional slide deck and accompanying activities.
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Weather Tools – Instructional Slide Deck
Learn about different weather tools and how to read a weather map with this 20-slide instructional slide deck.
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Electricity and Circuits Instructional Slide Deck
Use our editable instructional slide deck to break down the fundamentals of electricity and circuits for your students.
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Measuring and Converting Time – Instructional Slide Deck
Learn how to measure and convert time with this 14-slide instructional slide deck.
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The New England Colonies - Instructional Slide Deck
Guide your students on a trip through American history with an instructional slide deck depicting life in the New England Colonies.
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Apostrophes in Contractions Teaching Presentation
Teach your students to use apostrophes to form contractions with an Apostrophe teaching presentation.
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Collective Nouns Teaching Presentation
Teach your students to recognize and use collective nouns with a teaching presentation.
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Prefixes Interactive Teaching Presentation
Teach your students to correctly identify, define, and spell words that include common prefixes with an interactive teaching presentation.
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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.