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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Writing Opinion Texts Slide Deck
Explore the structure and language features of opinion texts with these teaching slides.
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Odd and Even Properties Teaching Slides
Teach your students about the properties of odd and even numbers with this interactive teaching slide deck.
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Building Self-Esteem Teaching Slides
Explore how to build up self esteem with this set of teaching slides perfect for social emotional learning lessons.
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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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Interior Angles of Shapes Teaching Slides
Explore the interior angles of common two-dimensional shapes with this comprehensive set of teaching slides.
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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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What Are Desk Pets? Introduction Slide Deck
Introduce your students to your Desk Pet Classroom Reward System with an engaging slide deck.
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Water Sources Teaching Slides and Workbook
Learn all about water sources and how it relates to the water cycle with this teaching presentation and matching workbook.
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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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Physical Properties of Metals – Teaching Slides for 6th Grade
Explore and learn about different properties of metals such as luster, ductility, conductivity and malleability with this set of teaching slides.
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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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Exploring 2-Digit Place Value - Teaching Slides
Explore 2-digit numbers using place value strategies with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Subtracting Decimals With Base-10 Blocks – Teaching Slides for 5th Grade
Teach your students how to use base-10 blocks to model decimal subtraction problems with this set of teaching slides.
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Lab Safety Teaching Slides
Teach your students about the important of science safety before conducting experiments with this 18-slide instructional slide deck.
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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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How Do People Use Natural Resources? Teaching Slides
Teach about natural resources and how humans interact with them with this 17-slide teaching deck.
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The Continent of Asia - Teaching Presentation
Familiarize your students with the physical and human geography of Asia with this comprehensive instructional slide deck.
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Ordering Numbers - Instructional Slide Deck
Help your students understand the concept of number sequencing with an interactive instructional slide deck.
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Story Elements: Sequencing Jack Be Nimble
Teach your students the art of sequencing with an instructional slide deck surrounding the Jack Be Nimble nursery rhyme.
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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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Objects in the Sky – Instructional Slide Deck
Teach your students about the moon, sun, stars, and clouds with this 24-slide instructional slide deck.
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Introduction to Number Lines - Instructional Slides
Introduce your kindergarten students to the number line with an interactive teaching slide deck.
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Decimals on a Number Line (Tenths and Hundredths) Slide Deck
Teach your students how to identify, order, and label decimals on a number line with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Introducing Phoneme Segmentation Slide Deck
Learn how to segment simple CVC words into their phonemes with this teacher-directed slide deck.
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All About Clouds – Instructional Slide Deck
Teach your students about the different types of clouds with this 19-slide instructional slide deck.
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Synonym and Antonym Instructional Slides
Build skills in identifying synonyms and antonyms with an interactive instructional slide deck.
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Daily Weather Report – Interactive Powerpoint
Encourage your students to become weather reporters with this interactive weather activity.
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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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Parts of a Dictionary Entry Instructional Slide Deck
Learn about the different parts of a dictionary with this Instruction Slide Deck.
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Guide Words Instructional Slide Deck
Learn how to use guide words to find words in a dictionary with this Instructional Slide Deck.