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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Fictional Genres PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint covering 7 of the most common fictional genres.
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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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Everyday Grammar Capitalization and Punctuation Warm-Ups – Grades 3 and 4 Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the middle grades classroom when learning about grammar and punctuation.
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Calculating Discounts and Sale Price Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to calculate discounts and sale prices using fractions and decimals with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Comprehension Strategies – Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
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Contractions – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive 24-slide PowerPoint introducing contractions.
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Developing Narrative Writing Skills - Grade 3 and Grade 4
An 18-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of narrative texts.
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Building Strong Sentences Teaching Presentation
Share this 15-slide teaching presentation with your students to help them understand the key grammar concepts of compound sentences,coordinating conjunctions and clauses.
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Kn Digraph Lesson Resource Pack
Introduce students to the ng digraph with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.
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5 Finger Retell Teaching Slides
Teach your students about the 5 finger retell strategy with this set of teaching slides.
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Plant Adaptations Slide Deck
Explore different plants' behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations with an interactive slide 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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What is Pollution? Instructional Slide Deck
Show your students the types of pollution and their effects 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.
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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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Natural Disasters – Instructional Slide Deck
Investigate rapid changes to Earth's surface and other natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides with this instructional slide deck.
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Sound Devices in Poetry - Teaching Slide Deck
Teach the different sound devices used in poetry with this Google Slide Deck.
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Elements of Poetry - Instructional Slide Deck
Investigate poetic elements with an interactive Elements of Poetry teaching slide deck.
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Places in the Community PowerPoint
A 21 slide editable PowerPoint template introducing students to investigating the places people live in and belong to.
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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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Food Webs vs. Food Chains – Instructional Slide Deck
Learn the difference between a food chain and a food web with this 18-slide instructional slide deck.
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Prose, Poetry, and Drama Teaching Presentation
Teach your students the difference between poetry, prose, and drama with an interactive Google Slides teaching presentation.
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Food Chains – Teaching Presentation
Learn about the flow of energy in a food chain with this 12-slide teaching presentation.
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Author's Purpose Teaching Presentation
Teach your students to identify the author’s purpose in a text with a teaching presentation.
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Elements of Plot Teaching Presentation
Teach them to your students with a Plot Elements Teaching presentation.
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Planets of Our Solar System – Teaching Presentation
Practice identifying the planets in Earth's solar system and their position in relation to the Sun with this 21-slide presentation.
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Understanding and Managing Anxiety Teaching Presentation
Teach your students about anxious feelings with this comprehensive guide to understanding and managing anxiety.
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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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Scientific Investigation Process – PowerPoint
A PowerPoint outlining the scientific investigation process.
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Grade 5 Daily Warm-Up – PowerPoint 3
A 82-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases PowerPoint
A 31-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about solids, liquids, and gases.