20 Great Free Google Slides and PowerPoint Templates for Teachers
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Working from home remotely or teaching in the classroom, slideshows and presentations are a great way to get key information across in a visually exciting and memorable way. You can use them as a base for a whole lesson, talking through and discussing issues raised on each slide, you can run it through as a presentation in its own right and even share the file so remote learners can watch it back.
As teachers we understand that your time is precious, planning, marking, assessing, grading, mountains of paperwork, and of course, lest we forget, continuous learning and development. Preparation of materials is vital especially if you are now an online teacher and whilst your main job is the content you still want the look to be professional. The last thing you need is a class laughing at your computer skills. So help is on its way.
Here we present 20 fantastically free Google Slides and PowerPoint Presentation Templates that will wow your students and impress the senior management at the same time as well as saving you time and effort. And all is good!
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1. Free Educational Presentation Templates for Online Lessons
20 Slides especially made for online lessons. They are available in 2 color schemes, making a total of 40 slides. This free presentation template is perfect for online lessons – you can find slides for math, literature, geography, biology, and chemistry, plus infographic slides for practice and infographics. It is available for PowerPoint, but easily imported into Google Slides, and even used in Google Classroom. GraphicMama has decided to give this template away absolutely free to help teachers with online lessons, so you don’t have to pay a penny.
2. Elijah Free Teaching PowerPoint Template
A 25 school theme slide show a PowerPoint template (compatible with Google Slides) with plenty of text boxes for content but also areas for graphs, comparison charts, images, and other infographics. A green color scheme with blue, orange, and purple accents and accompanying cool chalkboard effect school icons border. It is fully editable for your subject and will grab the attention right from the first slide.
3. Lucius Free Teaching PowerPoint Template
A 23 different layout slide presentation template specifically designed for very young learners, nursery or kindergarten age. A simple design with different waving multicultural children characters in the bottom right corner. Added to this the style of fun creative fonts and text bubble will capture the attention in this flexible easy to edit PowerPoint or Google Slide show. Entertaining but professional and free.
4. Free Chalkboard PowerPoint Template for Teachers
Take your students back to the classroom with this free green chalkboard PowerPoint template. Great realistic background board with fantastic hand-drawn chalk font, fully editable with lots of scopes. You can also simulate the handwriting with chalk. This template can be used for Google slides as well.
5. Friar Free Education PowerPoint Template
A clean, clear look from this Free Friar Education template for teachers. An exercise book theme, with 23 square lined pages that cover everything you could possibly need, including maps, infographics, charts, images, etc. To keep the attention and keep on a theme the pages have mixed borders of biro penned doodles of school icons. Lively and fun but focused.
6. Creative Light Bulb Free PowerPoint Template
A great free 36 unique slide template imaginatively mixing the metaphor of a creative light bulb and a school pencil. Soft but the bright light color scheme of light blue, yellow, and white with a huge variety of presentation options. Various timelines, charts, and graphs as well as room for text blocks and images.
7. School Supplies Free PowerPoint Template
This visually appealing presentation template helps you catch the pupils attention. A grid design used as a background and school supply graphic icon designs used throughout the presentation make this free template just perfect for teachers. Organized and clear but not boring. This PowerPoint template is fully editable, with full access to add, delete, and rearrange any of the slides in the best way for your information. Plus editable infographic slides for you to edit, along with some icons, and a world map.
8. Blackboard Free School PowerPoint Template
A classic look with a vintage style, this free Blackboard Powerpoint Template for teachers creates an unfussy, simple layout with clear colors and graphics. Customizable and complete freedom to add slides, delete or rearrange, add images and data
9. Kindergarten Free PowerPoint Template
Bright, colorful presentation template that appeals to children of a younger age group. Keep their short attention spans in check with appropriate images on a lined exercise book. Fully editable, you can change the color scheme and do the usual adds or deletes.
10. Sketchnotes Lesson Free PowerPoint Template for teachers
21 great slides of different layouts on a paper background with hand-made doodled drawings, like a typical notebook. Pen marks mixed with pastel colors and a cool font. a presentation that lets you lay down the marker as a cool teacher with design flair.
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11. Free PowerPoint Template with Chalkboard Background
A well-used dark green chalkboard, with distressed markings and hand-written chalky font. Cool decorative illustrations look like drawings with an element of humor. 29 fully editable slides for PowerPoint or Google Slides.
12. Pedagogical Education Free PowerPoint Template
Cartoon-styled illustrations on a sky blue background give freshness and energy. Clouds add some visual interest to a very simple design with inviting fonts. Everything you need to create a cute, wonderful presentation with 25 flexible slides.
13. Ely Free Online Education PowerPoint Template
Every slide stands out in this 25 slides free template for teacher option. Colored pencils appearing on each slide are perfect for attracting the attention of younger children. Changing the theme colors adapts the pencil tones. Plenty of layouts and visual resources to help you create content, edit the text, add or delete, add your own images and impress that class.
14. Iris Free Space Presentation Template for teachers
Free space and stars-themed illustration perfect for your science lesson. You can keep the purple and blue gradient background or change to more lively colors. Fully editable (even the illustrations of the planets and astronauts!). Ideal for presentations in class or online, for astronomy, the universe, or space exploration.
15. Aumerle Free Lesson PowerPoint Template for teachers
Bring your food science lesson to life with this illustrated background of hand-drawn fruits (lemon, orange, apple, pear, watermelon, avocado, strawberry, blueberries, and banana) with blobs of color. All fully resizable, recolorable, and movable. A fun and colorful theme for presentations on the seasons, nutrition, healthy food, or agriculture.
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16. Kent Free School PowerPoint Template
A free template for teachers for your Powerpoint or Google Slides presentations. Bright, bold, colorful strong shapes and icons. For a more abstract, modern art appeal and fully recolorable. Best for images and ideas rather than heavy text presentations.
17. Crab Free Educational PowerPoint Template
Younger children can’t fail to be grabbed by this free presentation template full of pet illustrations. Text bubbles are animal speech bubbles, which present each slide. Fun and best if it’s kept light-hearted and light on content. Ideal for kindergarten, nursery, and homeschooling.
18. Talbot Free Teaching PowerPoint Template for Teachers
A very cool imaginative free presentation template using realistic graphics of a birds-eye view of stationery sitting on a desk. Place the content on the papers on the desktop, in a handwritten form for the personal touch. Use completely free both in Powerpoint or Google Slides with 25 slide layouts and 80 additional graphic elements.
19. Free Technology Lesson PowerPoint Template
Just perfect for your ICT or Technology class featuring hexagonal patterns and scientific icons. A free presentation template with a dark background and bright blue color palette that is stylish and eye-catching. It leaves plenty of space for text and keeps the whole cool and airy. It will certainly impress.
20. Seyton Free Online Classroom PowerPoint Template
A whiteboard takes over from the chalkboard and the content is placed inside as though written with a marker. Hand-drawn icons complete the theme. Features graphs, charts, and tables, all fully editable. The content of the template also offers tips on the presentation of PowerPoint and Google Slides. So a double bonus.
All free, all adaptable, all fully editable for your content wishes, you’d be crazy not to use the help available. You are a teacher, not a designer so concentrate on the content and learning and let the presentation design help this process not distract from it. A professionally designed look to run alongside your professional teaching skills. Make the most of the resources out there and everyone is a winner.
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8 Tips to Power-Up Your Classroom Presentations
Last month, I attended a Back to School Night for parents, sitting through presentation after presentation by teachers, some with slides that helped make their presentation a delight to listen to, and others . . . well, that's why I'm writing this blog post.
The goal of a classroom presentation is to aid you in effectively conveying information in a way that allows students (or their parents) to remember what you said. Unfortunately, for some, the presentation becomes a crutch, and they begin to rely on the slides to tell their story, rather than to help them tell the story.
I've been creating presentations using software like PowerPoint and KeyNote for 20 years, and I've learned a lot about how to most effectively communicate. Here's what I've found.
1. Use as Many Slides as You Need
It's a common myth that better presentations use fewer slides. This is simply not the case. I once sent an education conference presentation to the organizers so they could preview it in advance of my speaking. They wrote back, concerned that my 45-minute presentation had 116 slides. I looked it over and realized they were right! I revised it and sent a presentation with 135 slides back to them. I finished my talk with 5 minutes to spare -- just enough time to take questions -- and the presentation was a huge success.
The number of slides in your presentation is irrelevant. What matters is how well your slides communicate and how much time you spend talking about each slide. Spending five minutes on five slides will almost always be more engaging to your students than spending five minutes on a single slide, even when the information is exactly the same.
In the movie Amadeus , the Emperor of Austria complains to Mozart that his music has "too many notes." Mozart responds, "There are just as many notes as are required. Neither more nor less." Use as many slides as you need to make your point. No more. No less.
2. Minimize Verbosity
Your slides are there to support what you are saying, not to say it for you. Keep your word count low, and only place one main point on a slide, plus three to five sub-points if absolutely needed. Remember tip #1 above -- don't be afraid to use more slides. They're free! Also, the language in your slides doesn't need to be in complete sentences. Pare the text to as few words as possible, using what's there only to emphasize and reinforce -- not replace -- the words coming out of your mouth.
3. Maximize Visuals
Photos, figures and icons work as visual memory triggers. They help your students remember what it is you're saying. Any time you can add a visual that helps illustrate or reinforce the points you're making in your slides, you should use it. One great way to do this on the cheap is to use public domain or creative commons photos you can find on Flickr or Google .
4. Reduce Noise
Many teachers like to add banners, headers, footers, page numbers and more noise to their slides. Unless the information needs to be on every slide for a vital reason (which is rare), you should remove it. All these redundant elements do is create distractions from the content of your slides. I find this to be especially true of page numbers. Imagine if a movie included a time code at the bottom, constantly reminding you how long you had been watching. All this does is serve to take the viewer out of the moment. Page numbers in slides really don't provide any useful information -- they just remind your students how long they've been watching.
Pursuant to tips #1 and #2, you're not going to win awards by cramming the most content on the fewest slides. Make text and visuals as large as you can. Not only does this make them easier to see and read, but larger images and text make a greater impact to aid memory. There's nothing wrong with filling an entire slide with a photo, and then placing text right on top. You may have to use a transparent background immediately behind the text so that it's clearly readable, but the overall effect is almost always more memorable than just some text beside an image.
6. Highlight What You Are Talking About
While you are presenting, your students may be momentarily distracted taking notes, thinking about what you are saying, glancing out the window, possibly even daydreaming. When they refocus on your slides, though, they need to quickly pick back up where you are, or you risk losing them again.
- Use contrast or call-outs to clearly show the area of the slide you are talking about.
- Reveal bullet points or table rows one at a time so that the last one visible is the one you are talking about.
- Use arrows, circles or other pointers to show what you are referencing in specific parts of an illustration, photo or graph.
- Animate and reveal parts of illustrations and graphs (where possible) to build your story rather than showing everything at once.
- Use bold type or different colors to highlight the keywords in any lengthy text.
7. Transition Changes
Humans suffer from an affliction called change blindness -- we have a hard time seeing changes unless there is a clear transition between the states. This is especially a problem in presentations where slides may look very much alike. Most programs include transitions that can be used between slides or on elements in the slides themselves.
My favorite transition is the cross-dissolve -- where the first slide fades down while the next slide fades up -- but different transitions can help illustrate points in your presentation. Are you talking about combustion or the fire of London? Use a flame transition. Talking about photography or Hollywood movies? Use the flashbulb transition. Even "cheesy" transitions help overcome change blindness and aid student memory at the same time.
8. Repeat Yourself Redundantly
It’s OK to repeat the same slide more than once -- especially when using images -- if you are reminding students of an earlier point. Obviously, this is not a license to be monotonous. However, if you want to tie separate ideas together, emphasize a point or splash in a little comic relief, it's perfectly fine to repeat a slide.
Bonus Tip: Make it Funny!
There's little doubt that emotional responses can aid memory. While it can be difficult to apply this power in a classroom slide presentation, humor is easy enough, and adding a bit of levity to your presentations at the right points can work to give students vital memory hooks.
Remember, the point of presentation slides is not to replace you as the teacher, but to help your students understand and remember what you are teaching. Overwhelming them with too much information can be just as harmful as underwhelming them with too little.
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Google Slides 101: Tips and Tricks Every Teacher Needs To Know
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Google Slides is a favorite teaching tool for many educators, both in person and online. With a huge selection of free features and options, this powerhouse allows teachers to create dynamic, interactive presentations that really engage their students. Whether you’re new to Google Slides or are looking to up your game, these resources will help you make the most of it.
Start with the basics
If this is all new to you, watch this video to see how to create simple Google Slides. It walks you through the process one step at a time. Plus, grab a free Google Slides Cheat Sheet from Shake It Up Learning .
Share slides with your students
You aren’t limited to using slideshows to accompany in-class presentations. Share them with students to use when studying, assign them as homework or for asynchronous learning, or create interactive slides (more on that below). Assigning Google Slides to your students is easy in Google Classroom. Teaching With Jennifer Findlay shows you how it’s done.
Use themes and templates
Jeoparty! Theme from SlidesCarnival
Google Slides themes are a pre-set group of colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts. You may sometimes see themes called “templates”—these two terms are interchangeable and work in the same way. Themes/templates allow you to enter your own information but save you a lot of time by taking care of the overall look and layout for you.
Doodles Theme from SlidesMania
You’ll find a variety of themes built into the program itself (watch the Google Basics video above to see how to use them). You’ll also find thousands more available for free or purchase online. Using them is generally as simple as clicking a link and then choosing “Use Template” to customize.
Add sounds to Google Slides
Adding sounds like music or narration can make your slide presentation a lot more interesting. Play bird songs in a lesson on ornithology, listen to a concerto as you discuss Mozart, or even create your own read-aloud. Narrated slides are terrific for asynchronous learning situations too. Learn how to add audio from Fluxing Well.
Don’t forget video
The nice thing about embedding a video directly in your Google Slides presentation is that you (or your students) don’t have to worry about clicking over to another window or website. Instead, you can simply set the video to play automatically (or once the Play button is clicked). You can use YouTube videos, videos from other sites, or those you’ve created yourself. (Pro tip: You can set a video to start and stop at any time you like !)
Make your Google Slides interactive
If you think a slideshow is something for students to sit and watch passively, Google Slides is here to prove you wrong. Have kids click on correct answers, type in text, and a whole lot more. This in-depth video demonstrates the entire process. Get more info from Super Sass and Science Class.
Choice boards are a popular way to make slides interactive. This video has the quick how-to.
Drag-and-drop slides are another terrific way to draw learners into a slide presentation. It’s amazing how much of a difference this makes in student engagement!
Link to internal slides and external sites
Adding links really ups the interactivity of your slides and turns them into self-directed activities in a snap. You can link kids to other pages in the slides for self-checking assessments or to external sources like websites or Google Classroom docs. This is one (easy) skill every teacher should master.
Check out Google Slides add-ons
Google Slides itself has lots of features, but you can also get lots of (often free) add-ons to make certain tasks easier. Add-ons are available to make diagrams, find better images, and display math equations … just to name a few. Ditch That Textbook has a list of 20 add-ons all teachers should try here.
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One add-on teachers swear by is Pear Deck . It makes it easy to drop in formative assessments and evaluate student progress. The basic program is free for all users; learn how it works here .
Get in on the Bitmoji classroom trend
Those Bitmoji classrooms that are all the rage are right at home on Google Slides. Learn more about these virtual classrooms here, including how to make your own.
If you’re really ambitious, you can “animate” your Bitmoji to create a cool effect that kids will enjoy. It takes a bit of time, but as this video shows, it’s really not that hard to do.
Teach students to use Google Slides
Once students know how to use the program, there are all sorts of awesome assignments they can take on. Even elementary kids can learn how it works. Two Boys and a Dad has an awesome free project to get them started. Once they’ve got the basic skills, here are a few ideas to try.
Challenge your students to create an e-book using slides. Have them illustrate their creative writing, or try it for a different twist on a standard report. Get the quick tutorial from Shake Up Learning.
Digital interactive notebooks make it easy for you to monitor student progress, online or in-person. Plus, no more worries about kids “forgetting” to bring their notebook! Two Boys and a Dad shows you how they work. Make your own, or find ready-to-use templates on the web like this one from Student Savvy .
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Increase student learning by more than 400% with these 9 visual presentation tips
Few teachers truly understand the power visual design plays in the learning process.
Those who do, though, tend to have more engaged students and see better academic performance across the class. Why?
For one, well over half of the world’s population are visual learners, meaning they take in information faster and more effectively via graphs, charts and images.
What’s more, quality visual presentations can enhance understanding by more than 400% , and actually help students absorb the material better than a strictly verbal lecture.
In one particular study, people could remember the content of 2500 pictures with over 90 percent accuracy 3 days later — and that’s after looking at them for only 10 seconds! Perhaps even more interesting, a year later participants in the same study could recall those images with 63% accuracy.
Without a visual aid, students only remembered 10% of a lecture 3 days later!
When studying these facts, it’s clear that accompanying your teaching with some sort of visual support is a great way to help students absorb content more easily.
But how, exactly, should you use visuals? What type of visual presentation is right for your audience? What colors, format, and layouts should you use in your presentation?
This article outlines 9 best practices for creating attractive, attention-grabbing presentations that will get your students invested in learning, and eager to get involved.
Let’s begin!
Tip #1: Ensure that your presentation reflects your core message
Tip #2: always consider the age of your audience in both presentation design and length.
- Tip #3: Both content and design should be simple and complementary
Tip #4: Don’t be afraid to switch it up!
Tip #5: choose your colors wisely, tip #6: use graphics to simplify your message.
- Tip #7: Always make it interactive!
- Tip #8: Make sure your presentation reflects your environment
Tip #9: Don’t be afraid of feedback!
- Recap. It’s time to get visual!
When first designing your presentation, start by thinking about your core message or subject. Is it historical? Artistic? Natural? Elements such as color, shapes, images or illustrations can go a long way in enhancing your material, piquing the interest of your students and providing better understanding.
For example, a PowerPoint template like the one below creates a very historic or geographical tone, and would be a great choice for a project about famous explorers or cartographers:
While something like this one below is a better choice for a more scientific presentation — think Albert Einstein, NASA or Marie Curie, perhaps?
Don’t worry, there are a huge range of templates available for all fields of study . So applying a themed presentation that’s in-line with your core message can be an impactful and easy way to present your information visually — way more so than just using plain slides with colors and text.
Of course, the design theme matters — but don’t forget to think about the age of your students, either.
For example, if you opt for a design that has a more elementary feel, high school students might find your presentation to be too basic, and may lose interest more quickly. And if you choose a design that’s too advanced or too serious, younger children may become disinterested, confused or distracted.
Striking the right balance is key!
Age also comes into play when considering the length of your presentation.
According to NASA , presentations to grades K-2 should be around 20 minutes maximum, while 3rd-5th graders can hang on for about 30-45 minutes.
Presentations can be longer for grades 6th and above, but for all of the aforementioned, it’s good practice to take a 10-20 minute break after the first 20 minutes of the presentation to answer questions or to get the students moving — which we’ll discuss in tip #7!
You can also follow Guy Kawasaki’s universal 10-20-30 rule , and apply it to presentations for students of any age:
- There should be a maximum of 10 slides
- The presentation should last no longer than 20 minutes (this is about the time eyes begin to glaze over! Be sure to leave time for questions and discussion). Try to stick to the information you planned to share, and avoid rambling!
- Font size should be a minimum of 30pt (your students will read faster than you talk, so less information on the slides means that there is less chance of the audience being distracted).
Tip #3: Both content and design should be simple and complementary
In presentations used for teaching purposes, the visuals or design of your presentation should only be used to enhance your content , it shouldn’t overpower it.
When choosing a template for your presentation, then, it’s important to choose one that allows your information to be the star, whilst also keeping everything neatly organized and easy to understand.
It’s a delicate balance, for sure:
- If a template doesn’t leave you enough room for the information you need to present, or you feel it overwhelms that information, try toning down the design a bit
- On the other hand, presenting too much information on one slide can be overwhelming to your audience and cause them to lose interest in the visual
- Try to avoid over-saturating your slides with text . If you have a lot of information to include on a slide, try breaking it down into bullet points or shorter sentences.
If you aren’t experienced in designing slide presentations, you can study slide makeovers to get a better feel of the perfect balance of word and visual. Here are a few hard and fast rules, though, to get you started:
- Stick to one image per slide
- If you’re including a quote, put it on its own slide
- Take the rule of thirds into consideration
- Try not to use generic stock photos on all your slides, you’ll want to vary your design (which we’ll talk about in the tip below!).
Not all slides in your presentation should be completely uniform. While the theme and color scheme should stay consistent, it’s important to use a variety of slide layouts to maintain your student’s interest.
For example, don’t have your entire presentation be 20 slides with images on the left and text bullets on the right. Incorporate slides that have graphs, charts, quotes, or even just large text or images on them will do the trick.
If you’re using Powerpoint or Google Slides, switching things up is super easy as they rather conveniently offer a few different slide layouts within the same template .
As you’re looking over your content, take a moment for each point to think about which layout will help to convey your information in the best way possible. Does one of your points have a lot of data? Consider a pie chart. Does one of your slides contain reference to a famous individual? Include a photo!
Slide after slide of the same layout quickly becomes repetitive, so shake things up and always keep your audience on their toes.
Color plays a bigger role in your presentation than just ‘decoration’. In fact, color has a huge impact on the emotional response your presentation provokes.
Studies show that the color palette you use will have the same semiotic meaning to most people — even students! Therefore, it’s important to consider the general feeling or vibe you want your presentation to give off before choosing a color scheme.
You’ll also want to consider the psychology of your color choices , too, as well as how best to pair certain tones.
An attractive color combination keeps eyes interested. When you compliment your lectures with well-chosen color, your students’ minds will be less likely to wander — and that’s the key to being a great teacher.
Color can also be used as a tool to visualize information, and can be particularly helpful in:
- Creating contrast: If you need a particular point to really stand out, consider choosing a bold color for it that grabs attention
- Grouping elements : If you need to make a correlation or relationship between two points super obvious in your presentation, color can help you visually pair them
- Encoding quantity : Color encoding, also called color mapping , is a method that represents numbers or text as colors. Color encoding schemes are useful to help perceive the absolute or relative size of numbers.
Thanks to the internet, it’s never been easier to find the perfect image for our classroom presentations.
Graphics are a great way to capture and keep the attention of your students , and also help to explain ideas in a more interesting and engaging way. So, once you’ve outlined the key points of your presentation, always go back through it and pick out any opportunities where you might be able to present information visually.
No matter what the subject, there will always be a funny GIF or eye-catching photo that can help to teach your class in a funny or entertaining way. Icons, clipart, and videos are also great tools to help you simplify complex information. Again, you’ll want to follow some best practices .
There are several great free sites where you can search and download royalty free stock images and illustrations. My favorites that I use regularly in SlidesCarnival are Unsplash and Undraw .
These sites have varying rules when it comes to listing credit to the photographer or illustrator, so be sure to look those over before using any image in your presentations.
Tip #7: Always make it interactive!
One of the best things you can do to ensure your students don’t lose interest in your material is to get them involved!
Making your presentation interactive, and asking for some audience engagement, is a fun way to keep your students guessing, and — ultimately — will help them to retain what they’re learning.
There are several ways to include interactive elements in your presentation, such as:
- Play games : encourage students to get up and move around a bit to regain some energy and focus in the middle of a longer presentation
- Take a poll: use interactive software to offer students the chance to interact with your presentation in real-time
- Insert pop quizzes and offer rewards for the winners
- Ask open-ended questions to create some conversation
- Ask for real-life stories from your students that apply to your lesson
- Present problems in your presentation and ask your audience to solve them (it’s proven to help them build self-confidence and encourage risk-taking!)
- And even more ideas
And remember: as the teacher, you can always help to answer questions, guide the students in a particular direction, or give clues and hints in any of the above activities.
As we discussed in Tips #5 and #6, you can also highlight these different activity slides with your chosen design. In order to make them really stand out and grab your students’ attention, try a bold color change to the slide background color, or even add in eye-catching icons, graphics or illustrations.
However you choose to do it, the key is to always use visuals to guide your students to wherever they need to be!
And if none of the above is working for your class, you could always try refocusing their attention with a blank slide .
Sure, it may sound pretty counterintuitive to what we’ve been discussing today — but one empty slide in a presentation filled with color and content is sure to grab the attention of your class in no time! Just remember to make the most of the opportunity, and remind your class of what they’ve learnt so far and what’s still to come.
Tip #8: Make sure your presentation reflects your environment
The environment we create is a reflection of our state of mind. Think about how you feel in a spa vs. how you might feel at a rock concert — the environment of those two different places are purposely set up to support a certain mood or focus — relaxation vs. energy and fun.
You can apply this same principle to your presentations, and use it to create lessons that cleverly consider and incorporate the environment of your classroom into the way you teach.
No one knows your classroom better than you.
Understanding your room’s size, shape, and lighting will help you create the most appropriate and cohesive design for your students.
For example, if your classroom is naturally very dark, perhaps throw out the blacks and browns and consider a lighter background that will draw-in focus. Or if your classroom is very colorful and busy, consider going with a more simplistic background that will complement the environment instead of competing with it.
And if your classroom is quite large, perhaps you need to go with larger font and graphics to ensure that everyone can see your presentation clearly; or if it’s on the smaller size, maybe you might want to use more intricate photos to really draw focus on what you’re presenting.
The key is to always consider your surroundings and design your presentation, accordingly.
What’s more, it’s also best practice to take into account the student audience’s accessibility.
For example, visually impaired students may not be able to fully access a presentation that’s filled with animation, graphics and bright colors. To account for this, it’s always a good idea to have alternate resources ready, such as a visually simplified handout, for example.
Just as many of us learn from seeing, many of us also learn from doing .
Once you’ve delivered a visual presentation for your students, ask them for suggestions on how to improve or change future lesson material .
This will not only help to give you new ideas for future presentations, but it will also encourage your students to take ownership of what happens in the classroom, which will keep them more invested in what you present next time. Who knows, they may even perk up and pay attention to see if you’ve implemented their suggestions!
It’s time to get visual!
So, let’s do a quick recap! There are 9 essential things you can do to help students engage with, enjoy and absorb new teachings:
- Ensure that the design of your presentation complements your message or topic
- Take age into consideration for both the look and length of your presentation
- Don’t make content compete with design — deliver material first, style second!
- Always use a variety of layouts in your slides, but use a consistent theme and color scheme throughout
- Learn about color psychology and apply its teachings to your presentations
- Use graphics that actually help you tell your story in an interesting way, not just as a visual distraction
- Make presentations interactive, and get your audience involved as much as possible
- Consider what environment you’ll be giving your presentation in, and use it to help your presentation stand out
- Get feedback after each presentation, and continue to improve using your student’s suggestions.
Some scholars believe that in the future, students who have fully developed visual thinking will have a positive advantage in our new ‘high-tech’ workplaces. Today’s jobs draw heavily upon information visualization technologies and techniques, in business, technology, art and science.
Exercising these skills during school will help them become more naturally applicable in the future, which is why it’s so important to always consider visual aids when designing presentations for your classes.
That said, it is of course important to not prioritize any ‘type of learner’ over others, or to focus solely on one learning approach. However, it is always helpful to think about how you can implement visual learning broadly across all subjects, including those that are not typically ‘visual’ like math and science.
In the end, education is about balance — and that’s the key to creating the best classroom presentations you can. So don’t be afraid of color, but don’t forget that information is always the priority!
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Are you tired of seeing the same PowerPoints repeating overused and unoriginal school presentation ideas covering repeated topics in your classes?
You know what I’m talking about; we’ve all been there, and sat through yawn-worthy demonstrations, slides, or presentation videos covering everything from the solar system, someone’s favorite pet, past presidents of a country, to why E=mC squared.
From grade school to university, first graders to college students, we are obligated to create, perform, and observe academic presentations across a plethora of curriculums and classes, and not all of these public speaking opportunities fall into the category of an ‘interesting topic’.
Yet, have no fear! Here at Piktochart, we are here to help you and your classmates. From giving examples of creative and even interactive presentation ideas, providing presentation videos , and suggesting interactive activities to give your five minutes of fame the ‘wow’ factor that it deserves, this article is your guide!
Our massive collection of unique school and college presentation ideas and templates applies if you’re:
- A teacher looking to make your class more engaging and fun with student presentations.
- A student who wants to impress your teacher and the rest of the class with a thought-provoking, interesting topic.
A Curated List of Interesting Topics for School Presentations
Did you know that when it comes to presentations , the more students involved improves retention? The more you know! Yet sometimes, you need a little help to get the wheels moving in your head for your next school presentation .
The great thing about these ideas and topics is you can present them either in face-to-face classes or virtual learning sessions.
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The templates are further divided into the following categories covering the most popular and best presentation topics. Click the links below to skip to a specific section.
- Unique science presentation topics to cultivate curiosity in class
- Engaging culture and history presentation ideas to draw inspiration from
- Health class presentation topics to help students make healthy lifestyle decisions
- Data visualization ideas to help students present an overwhelming amount of data and information into clear, engaging visuals
- First day of school activity ideas to foster classroom camaraderie
- Communication and media topics to teach students the importance of effective communication
- Topics to help students prepare for life after school
We hope this list will inspire you and help you nail your next school presentation activity.
Unique Science Presentation Topics to Cultivate Curiosity in Class
Science is a broad field and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with too many topics to choose for your next presentation.
Cultivate curiosity in the science classroom with the following unique and creative presentation ideas and topics:
1. Can life survive in space?
2. Do plants scream when they’re in pain?
3. What are the traits of successful inventors?
4. How vaccines work
5. Massive destruction of the Koala’s habitat in Australia
6. Left brain versus right brain
7. What are great sources of calcium?
8. Recycling facts you need to know
9. Do you have what it takes to be a NASA astronaut?
10. The rise of robots and AI: Should we be afraid of them?
11. How far down does the sea go?
12. The stages of sleep
13. Will Mars be our home in 2028?
14. A quick look at laboratory safety rules
15. The first person in history to break the sound barrier
Engaging Culture and History Presentation Ideas to Draw Inspiration From
History is filled with equally inspiring and terrifying stories, and there are lessons that students can learn from the events of the past. Meanwhile, interactive presentations about culture help students learn and embrace diversity.
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17. The sweet story of chocolate
18. A history lesson with a twist
19. The history of basketball
20. The origin of the Halloween celebration
21. AI History
22. What you need to know about New Zealand
23. 1883 volcanic eruption of Krakatoa
24. Roman structures: 2000 years of strength
25. The most famous art heists in history
26. Elmo: The story behind a child icon
27. 10 things you should know before you visit South Korea
28. 8 things you didn’t know about these 8 countries
Health Class Presentation Topics to Help Students Make Healthy Lifestyle Decisions
Want to learn how to engage students with healthcare topic ideas? Then consider using these templates for your next interactive presentation.
According to the CDC , school-based health education contributes to the development of functional health knowledge among students. It also helps them adapt and maintain health-promoting behaviors throughout their lives.
Not only will your presentation help with keeping students engaged, but you’ll also increase class involvement with the right slides.
The following examples of health and wellness interactive presentations include fun ideas and topics that are a good start.
29. How to look after your mental health?
30. The eradication of Polio
31. How to have a healthy lifestyle
32. 10 handwashing facts
33. Myths and facts about depression
34. Hacks for making fresh food last longer
35. Ways to avoid spreading the coronavirus
36. Mask protection in 5 simple steps
37. Everything you need to know about the flu
38. All about stress: Prevention, tips, and how to cope
39. The importance of sleep
40. Is milk tea bad for you?
41. How to boost happiness in 10 minutes
42. How dirty are debit and credit cards
43. Why do you need sunscreen protection
Data Visualization Ideas to Help Students Present Overwhelming Amounts of Data in Creative Ways
Data visualization is all about using visuals to make sense of data. Students need to pull the main points from their extensive research, and present them by story telling while being mindful of their classmates’ collective attention span.
As far as student assignments go, storytelling with data is a daunting task for students and teachers alike. To keep your audience interested, consider using a non linear presentation that presents key concepts in creative ways.
Inspire your class to be master data storytellers with the following data visualization ideas:
44. Are we slowly losing the Borneo rainforest?
45. Skateboard deck design over the years
46. Food waste during the Super Bowl
47. The weight of the tallest building in the world
48. Infographic about data and statistics
49. Stats about cyberbullying
50. How whales combat climate change
First Day of School Interactive Activity Ideas to Foster Whole-class-Camaraderie
Calling all teachers! Welcome your new students and start the school year with the following back-to-school creative presentation ideas and relevant templates for first-day-of-school activities.
These interactive presentations grab the attention of your students and are remarkably easy to execute (which is the main educator’s goal after all)!
51. Meet the teacher
52. Example: all about me
53. Self-introduction
54. Tips on how to focus on schoolwork
55. Course plan and schedule
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56. Interpreting a student’s report card (for parents)
57. Introduction of classroom rules
58. Assignment schedule
59. Daily planner
60. Course syllabus presentation
61. How to write a class presentation
Topics to Teach Students the Importance of Effective Communication
Visual media helps students retain more of the concepts taught in the classroom. The following media topics and infographic templates can help you showcase complex concepts in a short amount of time.
In addition, interactive presentation activities using these templates also encourage the development of a holistic learning process in the classroom because they help focus on the three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
62. Interactive presentation do’s and don’ts
63. How to create an infographic
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64. How to improve your internet security and privacy
65. What is design thinking?
66. What are your favorite software tools to use in the classroom?
Presentation Topic Ideas to Help Students Prepare for Life After School
One of the things that makes teaching a rewarding career is seeing your students take the learning and knowledge you’ve instilled in them, and become successful, productive adults.
From pitching a business idea to starting your podcast, the following topics are good starting points to prepare students for the challenges after graduation (aka adulting 101):
67. How to make a resume
68. How to start a startup
69. Credit card vs. debit card
70. Pros and cons of cryptocurrency
71. How to save on travel
72. How to do a SWOT analysis
73. How to pitch a business idea
74. Habits of successful people
75. Starting your own podcast: A checklist
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Pro tip: make your presentation as interactive as possible. Students have an attention span of two to three minutes per year of age. To keep minds from wandering off, include some interactive games or activities in the lesson. For example, if you conducted a lesson on the respiratory system, you could ask them to practice breathing techniques.
Maintain eye contact with your students, and you’ll get instant feedback on how interested they are in the interactive presentation.
Make School Presentation Visuals Without the Hassle of Making Them From Scratch
School presentations, when done right, can help teachers engage their classes and improve students’ education effectively by presenting information using the right presentation topic.
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The best class presentations combine strong content and visuals with an engaging presentation style. This post offers 11 steps for creating memorable and high-performing class presentations.
1. Review assignment guidelines
Before you can strategize about how to start a class presentation, you need to be certain that you understand the assignment details. Consult materials that your instructor provided, like rubrics, to determine what your presentation needs to cover and what form it should take.
For instance, are you presenting individually or as part of a group? How long should the presentation be? Are you required to have visuals? Knowing these details will help you to plan a successful class presentation.
2. Make a presentation plan
Once you've reviewed the specific assignment details, it's time to make a presentation plan. You can start by making an outline of your talking points. Outlines for class presentations will look similar to those for papers, with sections and subsections that work through your main ideas. You'll want to be precise about what points are essential to communicate to your audience. Also, take some time to decide on a completion timeline to ensure that you're ready on presentation day. Remember to build in time for practice!
3. Choose your visuals
At this point, you'll also want to determine what kind of visual aid(s) you want to use: a handout or a digital presentation, or both? Keep in mind the assignment requirements, but also the audience and the presentation format. For example, are you presenting to a large audience? If so, a handout might not be efficient. Are you presenting in-person or online? If you're preparing an online presentation, a PowerPoint or Google slides presentation will help your audience follow along.
4. Fill out your outline and keep it simple
Now that you've developed a plan for completing your class presentation, you can begin to build out the actual content. If you've created a basic outline, fill it in with some substance. Remember to keep it simple. At around 10-15 minutes, the average in-class presentation can only effectively communicate around three main points. Avoid long quotes or monologues. Your audience may find it difficult to follow longer textual components.
5. Design your visuals with minimal text
Along similar lines, don't simply plop your outline or textual notes into your visuals. Visual aids should be just that: aids that allow your audience to better visualize the main points of your presentation. Large blocks of text on a PowerPoint can be hard to see, so work on creating a digital aid that is mostly comprised on images. When text is appropriate, use bullet points and active words that your audience can remember.
6. Allow time for revisions
Once you've compiled your notes and created your visuals, take some time away from the project. You'll return to your work with fresh eyes. Then, allow time for revision: be sure to proofread your notes, slides, and/or handouts and make sure your visuals are clear. Check to see if any images that you're using appear pixelated on a larger screen and make sure your text is readable from a distance.
7. Check your citations
Many in class presentations will require citations, especially if they are accompanying a paper or another class research project. You can use BibGuru's citation generator to create your citations and copy them to your slides or handout. Consult your assignment guidelines, or ask your instructor, to find out what citation style is required.
8. Practice...and practice again
Give yourself time to practice your presentation in front of an audience before the big day. Familiarize them with the assignment guidelines, as needed, and ask them to time you. You'll need to know if your presentation meets the time requirements. After the first run though, consider these questions:
- Is your presentation too long or too short?
- Are you hitting the main points in a logical sequence that your audience can follow?
- Are your visuals clear?
- Is your delivery fluid or are you pausing too often to look at your notes?
- Are you making eye contact with your audience?
Use your answers to these questions to determine what, if at all, you need to change and then schedule another practice. You should practice your presentation as many times as you need to in order to achieve a fluid delivery.
9. Prepare for technical difficulties
Since most class presentations will include a digital element, be prepared to troubleshoot if there are technical difficulties on presentation day. Always have a back-up plan and be sure to save your visuals in multiple places. Keep a copy of your notes and slides in your email, on a thumb drive, and/or on the cloud. Practice enough so that, in the event that you can't get your visual aid to work, you can still deliver your presentation.
10. Take the stage with confidence
If you've followed your plan, practiced thoroughly, and prepared for possible technical difficulties, you should be ready to take the stage with confidence. Nervousness is absolutely natural, but try your best to relax and breathe. A few shoulder rolls and deep breaths right before the presentation can go a long way to making you feel more focused and centered.
11. Connect with your audience
From the first moment of your presentation, you'll want to establish a strong connection with your audience. Smile, make eye contact, and modulate your voice appropriately. Remember, people exhibit all kinds of facial expressions when they are listening or concentrating, so try not to pay too much attention to individual faces.
Also, although your instructor will be the one grading you, don't simply present to them. Include the entire class in your gaze. Finally, be careful about pace. If you have a tendency to speed up your speech when you're nervous, make a conscious effort to slow down.
The bottom line
Following the tips above will enable you to confidently deliver a class presentation to your instructor and classmates, or to any audience. With solid preparation and ample practice, your next class presentation will be a memorable success.
Frequently Asked Questions about class presentations
The most successful presentations begin with a hook. This could be a short, yet compelling story, an eye-catching visual with brief analysis, or an inspiring quote or statistic. No matter how you begin, ensure that you can fluidly transition to the main substance of your presentation in a way that your audience can easily follow.
Regardless of the subject of your presentation, you can make it interesting for your audience by engaging them through consistent eye contact, a relaxed and confident delivery style, and interactivity. For instance, to keep your audience engaged, you might try including questions or brief activities in your presentation.
Wrap up your presentation by summarizing your key points. You can also end with a provocative question or thought. You should also thank your audience for listening.
Good presentations are well-organized, time-sensitive, clear, and delivered with confidence.
The most common presentation mistakes include: not engaging your audience, using visuals that are overloaded with text, and not practicing enough.
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The Ultimate Guide to Effective Teacher Presentations: Strategies & Tips
Dianne Adlawan
Teachers, by nature, are considered professional presenters. Their main responsibility is to talk in front of their students to relay educational knowledge, sharpen their minds and skills, and even serve as a second guide alongside their parents. They also speak in front of parents, co-teachers, and school administrators. This just means that preparing for a presentation is already not new to them.
Still, teachers can become so comfortable with their presentation routine that their techniques turn into autopilot. The result of a repetitive task can become tiring and not challenging anymore which may result in students losing interest or attention span in the process.
The tips featured in this article are dedicated to these hard-working professionals. This will help them prepare and perform a better presentation in front of any type of audience.
Why You Should Prepare for a Presentation
- Preparation helps you build to structure your thoughts to create a well-organized presentation. By taking the time to prepare, you can decide what information is most important, plan the flow of the presentation, and make sure that everything is connected and easy to follow.
- Second, it allows you to think ahead of the questions that your audience might ask. Especially if you’re giving a presentation to a group of various audiences, who are curious about the topic at hand. By preparing in advance, you’ll be able to answer any questions they may have, which will not only increase their understanding but also boost your credibility as a teacher.
- Lastly, preparation helps you make the most of your time. Advanced preparation ahead of the presentation can ensure that you’re not wasting time trying to organize your thoughts at the last minute.
Effects of an Organized and Well-Planned Presentation
An audience engages with a speaker who knows their words and poses a confident attitude. While the projector may display clear and concise slides, the presenter is the main ingredient to every presentation.
For teachers, a well-planned lesson presentation helps the teacher maintain the attention and interest of their students, which is crucial for effective learning. Additionally, being organized and prepared will help teachers convey their ideas more effectively and it will help the teacher to feel more confident, which also impacts their teaching and in turn can help to build trust and rapport with their students.
Possible Outcomes of An Unprepared Presentation
Let’s suppose you haven’t allocated enough time to plan and prepare for an important presentation. What could be the potential outcomes?
- Increased Stress and Anxiety: Lack of preparation can lead to increased anxiety and stress, which can not only hinder your ability to deliver a convincing presentation but also hurt your mental health and work balance. It can cause a “mental block,” causing you to lose focus and concentration during your delivery.
- Poor Presentation Delivery: Without proper preparation, your presentation can appear scattered and disjointed. This can lead to an incoherent message that fails to convince your audience.
- Diminished credibility: Delivering an unprepared presentation can harm your reputation as a professional. It can portray you as disorganized and unreliable which could lead your colleagues or students to question your competence and reliability.
Effective Visual and Content Organization Tips
Consider this as the first stage towards an effective teacher presentation. Before moving on to improving your verbal communication cues, let’s enhance first your presentation visuals and content.
Visual Tips
1. add powerpoint animations and different media.
Establishing an attractive slideshow is one of the keys to a successful presentation. This will put a good impression on your audience that you’re prepared just by seeing how well-designed your presentation is. Of course, images add to slideshow attraction, but consider adding another forms of media such as GIFs and videos, as well as animations! Microsoft PowerPoint has a lot of fun & captivating features that you may not be aware of. Check out this example of an easy yet appealing Slide Zoom trick in PowerPoint that you can add to your presentation to wow your audience.
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2. Use Readable Font Styles
Make sure to use the best font style that makes your presentation look sleek, readable, and won’t strain your audience’s eyes while reading. We all want to use a fancy font, trust me, I get it. But most of the time, simplicity is beauty, especially if you’re presenting a professional-looking slideshow. Font styles such as Poppins, Tahoma, Verdana, Montserrat, and Helvetica are great examples of font styles that screams simple yet professional to look at.
On the other hand, font styles such as Bradley Hand, Comic Sans, and Chiller are not ideal choices as they are not meant to captivate your audience’s eyes. And another tip is to stick to two or three fonts only!
3. Use Relevant Graphics
Selecting graphics for designing your presentation depends on your audience and the goals you aim to achieve with the presentation. For example, if you are presenting in front of students and your goal is to keep them engaged, motivated, and actively participating, then you might consider incorporating charts, tables, and relevant shapes into your design.
It’s important to remember that your presentation design should align with the theme of your topic.
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4. Use Audience Engagement tools to Activate Learning
Want the quickest solution to an engaged audience? Well, it’s audience interactive activities! Adding interactive activities to your presentation can help keep your audience engaged and interested. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use ClassPoint, an audience engagement tool added right into PowerPoint presentations.
With ClassPoint, you no longer need to worry about strategies to keep your students engaged, as this tool transforms PowerPoint into a teacher presentation tool with a teacher toolbelt and student quizzes , polls, and games that make presentations more fun & engaging.
By combining ClassPoint with your presentation techniques, you can focus solely on setting up your lesson content in PowerPoint and allow ClassPoint to handle the rest for achieving a learning-activated presentation lesson .
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5. Use a Laser Pointer
Help focus your audience attention by using a laser pointer!
With the help of a laser pointer device, teachers are able to attract the attention of their audiences and concentrate on essential points in their presentations. Highlighting these main ideas and terms assists the speaker in organizing their speech, preventing distraction, and increasing retention of the information presented.
You can use a physical laser pointer & clicker, or with the addition of ClassPoint into PowerPoint, presenters can easily turn their cursor into a laser or a spotlight . This can make it even easier for students to follow along and is a convenient tool for creating a more captivating teacher presentation.
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Content Tips
1. research and fact-check your presentation.
As educators, it is crucial to equip ourselves with reliable and accurate information before presenting to our students. We have a responsibility to not only educate them but to also mold them into critical thinkers who are equipped with factual knowledge. Without thorough fact-checking, we risk disseminating misinformation and hindering their intellectual growth.
To avoid such situations, we must prioritize research and fact-checking before presenting any information. Conducting research helps us not only in finding accurate information but also in ensuring that the sources we use are reliable and credible. Moreover, taking the time to fact-check demonstrates our commitment to providing students with high-quality education and the desire to create a safe and accurate learning environment.
2. Be Prepared to Anticipate Questions during the Presentation
It is important to be well-prepared for a presentation especially anticipating and addressing questions. This applies particularly to a teacher presentation, as educators face varied expectations and questions. Adequate preparation allows you to organize ideas and justifications, and it can deepen understanding, boost confidence, and improve adaptability. Addressing questions, makes your audiences feel heard and appreciated. This will result in comprehensive presentations, enhanced confidence, improved information flow, and an atmosphere of respect and understanding.
A great & visual way you can elaborate, or explain your material in new ways, is by using ClassPoint’s whiteboard tools added to PowerPoint. ClassPoint’s added toolbar presents teachers with unlimited whiteboard slides they can open whenever they need, and user-friendly yet comprehensive pen tools with available shapes, and text boxes. Plus you can also use ClassPoint’s quick poll or other question types to assess students’ understanding with hard data & insights.
Addressing questions well makes your audience or students feel heard & appreciated leading to improved learning, enhanced confidence, and a respectful, safe learning environment.
3. Provide an Outline Structure of your Content
When you are preparing your presentation, it is best to first create an effective outline structure that will guide your presentation flow and help you focus on the main learning objective. But what you may not be doing, is offering that outline structure to your students, but you should!
Providing students with a clear understanding of what this lesson is about, the structure of the lesson, and what they will be able to take away from it is important. By doing so, you can help students stay focused and follow along with the material. Additionally, you are setting expectations and ensuring that everyone is on the same page, which can help promote student autonomy. So, include an outline at the start of your presentation lesson.
Step-by-Step Strategies for a Successful Presentation
Before presentation, know your audience, your students, or observers.
Once you have completed your deck, you may want to add a guide script and any additional notes with important points you don’t want to forget or you want to highlight in your presentation to impress your students .
Practice your presentation delivery/lesson
Practice delivering your presentation give you a chance to fine-tune your content and get your facts down. This will help you become more comfortable with the material and identify areas that need improvement. You can practice in front of a mirror, record yourself and watch it back, or even rehearse with a colleague or friend. When practicing, pay attention to your posture, tone of voice, and pacing. By doing so, you’ll be able to deliver a confident and engaging presentation that will captivate your audience.
Use a friendly tone of voice and pace
Adjust your tone to match your message, and avoid speaking too quickly so that your audience will get the chance to absorb the information you’re sharing. By being mindful of these aspects, you will capture your audience’s attention and leave them feeling informed and inspired.
Use engaging body language
Body language is essential for engaging your audience during a presentation. Stand up straight, make eye contact, and use hand gestures to emphasize important points. You can also move around the classroom to keep your students’ attention. By using engaging body language, you’ll be able to convey your message more effectively and keep your students interested throughout the presentation. You’ve got this!
During Presentation
Create an icebreaker.
Having an icebreaker is a warm-up for your students’ brains, allowing you to focus and engage with the material being presented. It also helps break down any barriers or tension between the presenter and the audience, making for a more relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Additionally, an icebreaker provides an opportunity for the presenter to showcase their creativity and personality, adding an extra level of excitement and engagement to the presentation.
Good thing that ClassPoint has numerous features to help you perform an entertaining and unforgettable icebreaker. Here are some examples that you can use during an icebreaker.
- Quick Poll : Quick Poll allows you to create interactive polls right inside your presentation. When used as an icebreaker, it can engage the audience, initiate discussions, and provide valuable insights that help tailor the content to participants’ preferences.
- Word Cloud: Presenters can ask thought-provoking questions related to the topic or general interest. Using Word Cloud, the audiences can answer through their mobile which can be instantly seen as collective responses, with the most frequently mentioned words appearing larger.
- Short Answer : In short answer, you can challenge your audiences’ thought process in a short-form writing activity with no options to get from to test their ability to understand.
- Image Upload : Using single image, audiences can interpret what they feel like, or their mood using only the photos in their gallery or surroundings. A creative yet fun way for an icebreaker!
Speak clearly
Effective communication is crucial when presenting important information to students. Speaking clearly helps ensure that students understand the concepts being taught and follow instructions effectively. As a teacher, it’s important to focus on clear speech to promote effective communication and help your students comprehend the material being presented.
Pay attention to your audience’s attention
Since distractions are aplenty, attention spans are dwindling, it’s important for presenters to captivate their audience’s attention right from the beginning. For teachers, when speaking in front of your class, you should not only focus on the content of your presentation but also on your students’ attention.
To ensure that your students won’t start drifting away or zoning out, start with a compelling opening that immediately grabs their attention. Use vivid storytelling, examples, or demonstrations to engage your students and drive home your message. Don’t forget the power of humor, and never be afraid to be yourself – authentic, passionate, and confident.
Add Personality: share short relatable stories
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As to what is stated in the quote, having a positive and vibrant personality affects the overall mood of your surrounding, it can capture the audience’s attention and maintain their interest throughout the presentation. While the ultimate goal is to deliver a presentation rich with new learnings and knowledge, adding humor can do no harm to lift up the mood in the room. You might want to start by segueing a short story that your students can relate to and make interactions by encouraging them to share a story too or ask questions.
Post-Presentation Reflection
Take the comments by heart.
Receiving feedback from your students is a great way for evaluating the efficacy of a teacher presentation. This can help you identify areas where you can improve and tailor your teaching tactics to better suit the needs of your students. Listening to your students’ feedback can also promote a feeling of cooperation and enable them to become more actively involved in the learning experience. So, don’t be afraid to ask for feedback and take it to heart in order to continually improve your presentations.
Experienced educators understand that they are perpetually crafting their skills, and feedback from their audience brings an opportunity for professional advancement. In addition, accepting audience feedback illustrates esteem and worth for the students’ views. It promotes a feeling of cooperation and enables students to become more actively involved in the learning experience.
Preparing for a presentation is essential for teachers to deliver engaging and impactful content to their students. By structuring thoughts, anticipating questions, and preparing ahead, teachers can achieve a well-organized presentation that will enhance the students’ understanding and leave them feeling confident.
By following our strategies and tips teachers can achieve successful lessons using PowerPoint presentations. And, with the help of an advanced educational technology tool like ClassPoint, teachers can create dynamic and memorable presentations that their students will enjoy and actively participate in.
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18 Free Beautiful PowerPoint Design Ideas for Virtual Classrooms
If you’ve surfed the internet long enough in search of PowerPoint design ideas for your remote learning class, you’ll notice a common scenario:
It is easier to become a Navy seal than to see/get a completely free, and beautiful PowerPoint template that comes with high-quality graphics. In most cases, you’ll realize the images are not present in the downloaded version if, by chance, you come across a free one. You can liken this search to looking for a needle in a haystack
On a more serious note, stunning templates for PowerPoint and graphics are intact are usually not offered for free and sometimes don’t come cheap. So when we had to compile the best PowerPoint design ideas for a virtual classroom, you can guess what challenge we took on.
We sifted through countless PowerPoint design ideas to see if we could find free PPT templates that are even better than premium templates. To our pleasant surprise, we amassed quite a collection of fun designs and can’t help but share them with you. Enjoy!
Make Your Virtual Classroom More Fun with These 18 Stunning PowerPoint Templates (All Free)
Polaroids & notebooks powerpoint template design.
The Polaroids and notebooks PowerPoint template is a great choice for any teacher or student who wants to simulate the experience of a physical classroom in their virtual learning space. Though it comes with a bare, minimalist look, the slides are nothing short of captivating. They are designed to have a paper sheet or post-it look reminiscent of a regular classroom. In total, the template has 25 unique slides which you can easily customize to suit your needs.
Blue Professional PowerPoint Presentation Template
Don’t want a notebook theme or a design featuring education-related images for your remote learning presentation? Then you’ve got a friend in the Blue Professional PowerPoint template. This theme has clean-looking and simple slides you can use to create any variety of academic presentations. The page layouts and graphic files are easy to use and well-organized. Even the blue and white accent of slides can be changed to match whatever subject you are presenting.
Back-to-School PowerPoint Template Design
Ms. Decker Back-to-School Presentation template is a 17-page design gotten from the archive of Microsoft Office. This is an entertaining and colorful template that will be a hit with younger learners. Nevertheless, it can be used for older learners depending on the subject matter.
Like all the other templates in this collection, the design elements in Back-to-School can be edited to present any scholastic idea.
Open Book PowerPoint Template Design
Open Book PowerPoint template is another feature-rich notebook theme we have on this list of remote learning PPT. Are you telling a story, writing an editorial, or talking about an education-related matter? Consider this classic theme from Slides carnival. Using this template for a presentation will give your audience the exciting feeling of reading from a book.
Photographic Desk PowerPoint Presentation Theme
Photographic Desk is a highly professional theme for students and teachers. The template features 25 stellar slides and can be used for both PowerPoint presentations and Google slides. With its realistic desk, stationery items images, and hand-drawn icons, this design is perfect for most educational topics.
Lab Safety PowerPoint Design Template
Are you giving a presentation on a laboratory work you did? Use Lab Safety PowerPoint design template to give your teacher and colleagues the step-by-step breakdown of your experimental procedures. You are free to get as creative as you want with this design. You can change images, fonts, transitions, and animations to bring your work to life. These little things will make your class one that most people will look forward to.
Book Report PowerPoint Template Design
The Book Report Presentation template is your best bet for displaying a book summary or to highlight key details of a story. The slides feature a bright yellow color scheme that makes each page stand out. Without fail, it holds your audience’s attention without wavering. This template is ideal for lower classes, but you can also adapt it to older audiences.
Colorful Pencils PowerPoint Template Design
Colorful Pencils Template is one of the best PowerPoint templates you will find in the free category. It has a paper background and pencil theme suitable for art students and other school presentations. In addition, the template works best for a 16:9 widescreen format, and it comes with 80 custom icons you can add or rearrange to create outstanding content.
Blue Bookstack PowerPoint Presentation Design
Blue Bookstack is an educational presentation template that shows a collection of books piled on top of one another. The design is minimalist, with amazingly clear fonts, and it’s paired with soothing and timeless aesthetics to make it the best choice for your reading or library presentation. You can also use it to make a lasting impression in that English class project you’ve always wanted to stand out in.
Simple Professional PowerPoint Design Template
What better way to make your presentation compelling and memorable than using a photography theme. You don’t need too many words with this template. There are spaces to add your own pictures that will help you tell your story rather than bore readers with several rows of lengthy texts.
You can also change the color of the theme and rearrange the pages of the slide to make the template more visually attractive to your students or instructor.
Green School Board Powerpoint Template Design
Recreate the feel of a regular classroom with this Green School Board PowerPoint template. You can give classwork, homework, corrections, or lesson notes using this design to help students feel like they are in a real classroom. The template contains 3 Master slides and a page size of 1024px by 768px.
Colorful Comic PowerPoint Presentation Template
Wake up the embedded creativity of your audience with this fresh, lively, and bold template. This template comes with a similar style to your regular comic book.
You can use the Colorful Comic PowerPoint template to tell a story or present an interesting idea to your audience. Although you could easily use this theme for creative projects, the major drawback is that it doesn’t adapt easily to a wide variety of topics
Campus Recruitment PowerPoint Template
The Campus Recruitment PowerPoint Presentation template mimics a dark chalkboard like what we used to have in the classrooms several years ago.
On both sides of the board, you’ll find images like a pencil, book, calculator, scissors, and a protractor, which helps to reinforce the point that this is a template for academic topics. Campus Recruitment has 25 Master slides and works well for informal topics as it does for formal school presentations.
Cool Squares PowerPoint Presentation Theme
Grab the attention of your learners with this happy, eye-catching theme from Slidescarnival. The exciting mix of colors makes the slides fascinating to the eyes. Also, extra features that make the templates even hotter are the fun graphics, which help keep students engaged. Altogether, the design makes your lessons motivating and inspiring for your remote learners.
Green Doodle Free PowerPoint Template
Use the Green Doodle template for PowerPoint to share a passion project or genius solution with the whole class. The light bulb, hand-drawn sketches, and quirky doodles make it an excellent choice for sharing collaborative brainstorming ideas for your group project.
Sketchnotes Lesson PowerPoint Presentation Template
This is a template you should try, and we bet that you’ll love the result. This fun and playful education template will take your class from boring to wildly exciting in seconds.
Sketchnotes contain a colorful illustrated background showing various hand-drawn school items such as notebooks, jotters, laboratory apparatus, and more. Although the theme is predominantly white, the graphics offer a dash of bold color that gives the design its fresh and vibrant aura.
Reading is Magical PowerPoint Presentation Theme
Share an inspirational story or take your audience on an adventure with this storytelling template. The Reading is Magical PPT theme is neatly illustrated and has a beautiful midnight blue background color that would delight most young learners.
When you go further, you’ll discover a host of functional elements like maps, charts, icons, and graphs you can use to create a presentation on any topic. If you want to adapt the template for older children, just switch the cartoon characters with an image that matches your viewers.
Vintage Moodboard PowerPoint Design Template
Introducing your audience to the prehistoric era or want a template to share a bit about yourself with your class? Try this retro-style template!
The Vintage Moodboard PowerPoint template combines a classic look with bits of modern design elements to produce a design that will make your presentation shine. Going through the slides, you will see the paper sheets, push pins, and Polaroid photos where you can write on or fill with an icon to pass across your message.
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