September 15 is National Online Learning Day. Online learning is becoming more and more popular. Resources to help with online learning is in high demand.
- Resources that allow students to read text and engage with it through interactive comprehension questions.
- Resources that take the extra step of gamification with hands-on activities.
- Resources that are mobile-friendly, allowing students to access it anytime and anywhere.
- Resources that are customizable; allowing educators to add or remove information to fit their needs.
- Resources that use comprehension questions to break up text-heavy content.
Our Google Slides content meets all of these needs. Since 2021, our catalog of Google Slide content has grown to over 200 products, and is still growing. Encompassing a wide range of grades and topics, our Google Slides resources are comprised of interactive slides for students to complete activities right on their device. They are ideal for distance learning, as teachers can share the resource remotely with their students, have them complete it and return, where the teacher can then mark it, all from their home. For this National Online Learning Day, we want to give a refresher course of how our Google Slides work.
Each Google Slide features:
- Teacher Guide: Information and Answer Key for the teacher.
- Vocabulary List: Improve comprehension with interactive flash cards.
- Interactive Lessons: Drag-and-drop and fill-in-the-blank questions featuring hands-on activities.
- Graphic Organizers/Mini Posters: Support the analysis of the text.
- Comprehension Quiz: Follow-up review and assessment after teaching the unit.
- Marking Rubric: Rate student assessment and tabulate total score.
How to Use our Google Slide Lesson Plans
In order to meet our teachers’ needs, we also provide our content in a variety of formats. Our Google Slide format is geared towards teachers who utilize a virtual classroom. Our Google Slide resources are comprised of interactive slides for students to complete activities anywhere on their own device. Ideal for distance learning, teachers can share the resource remotely with their students, have them complete the work and return for teacher marking.
The Google Slide version of our lesson plans is laid out the same as our traditional print book and eBook versions. Therefore, you will already be familiar with the layout and can refer to the provided Teacher Guide for best practices when using the lesson plan.
A great feature of using Google Slides in combination with Google Classroom is the ability to mark students’ work directly in the program. Once students complete the Slide and submit for review, use the provided answer key to compare students’ answers. The relevant slides include a mark field. Type the total number of correct answers in the box. Add up the scores as you go in the “Mark” area of the “Grading” menu. On the last slide there is a Marking Rubric. Drag the checkmark to the level that the student completed. Add up the total marks and type them into the final grade field. Return the marked Google Slides document to the student, along with any relevant comments.
For a more in-depth look at the process of ordering, downloading and saving your purchased Google Slides, check out our past blog post.