Teaching Slides for Teachers
Cut your lesson planning time in half with teaching slides created by teachers for teachers! Download hundreds of ready-made lessons created in Google slides or PowerPoint so they integrate seamlessly with your district LMS to supplement instruction in English, science, maths, HASS and more!
Each curriculum-aligned slide deck template in this collection has undergone rigorous review by our 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.
What Is a Slide Deck?
Maybe you call them teaching presentations? Maybe you call them slideshows? 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.
Our slide decks are designed with teachers' various needs in mind so you'll find Google Slides which can also be used by Microsoft PowerPoint users.
Oh, and did we mention that these slide decks for primary teachers are easy to customise? Make simple edits to differentiate instruction 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 that 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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Elements of Poetry PowerPoint - Year 5 and Year 6
A 25 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing students to the elements of poetry.
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Using Quotation Marks in Narrative Writing PowerPoint
A 21 slide editable PowerPoint template to be used when teaching correct usage of quotation marks.
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Using the Decimal Number Line (Tenths and Hundredths) Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to identify, order, and label decimals on a number line with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Unit Fraction Teaching Slides
Teach your students all there is to know about unit fractions using this detailed set of teaching slides.
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Writing Procedural Texts Teaching Slides
Use this procedural writing PowerPoint to teach your students about the purpose, structural elements and language features of procedure texts.
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Exploring Procedural Writing Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to write a procedure using this detailed slideshow targeted at lower primary school students.
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Toys - Past, Present and Future PowerPoint
A 15 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when comparing toys from today with the past.
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Push and Pull Forces Teaching Slides
Teach your students about push and pull forces with this comprehensive and age-appropriate teaching presentation for primary school science lessons.
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Chance Middle Years PowerPoint
An engaging 36 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about chance in the middle years.
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Material World PowerPoint - Processed and Natural Materials
Discover the difference between processed and natural materials with an instructional slide show.
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Making Inferences Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to make inferences with this 31-slide teaching presentation.
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Inference Pictures – Digital Question Pack
Download this set of captivating pictures and thought-provoking questions designed to challenge students’ inference-making abilities.
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Life Cycles – Teaching Presentation
Teach your students about life cycles of plants and animals with this 19-slide teaching presentation.
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Prefixes and Suffixes PowerPoint
Learn prefix and suffix concepts with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Facts of the Matter PowerPoint Presentation
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint to use when teaching your students about the states of matter in Science.
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Operations with Decimals Teaching Slides
Teach your students how to add, subtract, multiply and divide using decimal numbers with this comprehensive teaching presentation perfect for upper primary maths lessons.
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Persuade Me Persuasive Writing Prompts
Encourage students to write persuasive texts with these engaging task cards or teaching slides.
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A British Penal Colony - Teaching Slides
A 25 slide editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching students about the British colonisation of Australia.
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Introducing Decimal Numbers Teaching Slides
Help students understanding decimal place value and the relationship between fractions and decimals with this comprehensive teaching presentation.
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Time After Time Mathematics PowerPoint
Introduce your students to the history of the clock, time zones, and telling time with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Living and Non-Living Things Teaching Slides
Discover living and nonliving things with an engaging Living vs. Nonliving things teaching slide deck.
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Odd and Even Numbers PowerPoint
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing odd and even numbers to younger students.
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Bridging to Ten PowerPoint
A 14-slide PowerPoint that uses engaging animations to step students through the 'bridging to ten' addition strategy.
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The Addition Algorithm – Teaching Presentation
Use this editable interactive teaching presentation with your students when explaining how to use the addition algorithm with regrouping.
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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.
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States and Territories of Australia PowerPoint
Explore Australia's six states and two territories with this 27-slide editable teaching presentation.
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Contractions PowerPoint
A 24-slide editable PowerPoint template about contractions.
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Australian Gold Rush: That's Gold! – Teaching Presentation
A 13-slide teaching presentation that includes interesting facts about gold, why it is such a prized metal, and how its use shaped modern currency and trade.
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Life in Australia in the 20th Century PowerPoint
A 33 slide editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about living, working and social conditions in Australia in the 20th century.
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Narrative Writing Visual Prompts Presentation
A 19 slide teaching presentation containing visual narrative writing prompts.
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Natural Resource Use in the 21st Century PowerPoint
Explore how natural resources are used by humans in the 21st century with an instructional slide deck.
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3D Objects – Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
Explore the names and properties of a range of three-dimensional objects with this comprehensive interactive PowerPoint presentation.