Pear Deck is great for making formative assessments and activities that get students thinking critically and more deeply about any subject. With Pear Deck, you can engage your students with fun, interactive custom and pre-made activities. Keep reading to learn how!
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Pear Deck is great for making formative assessments and activities that get students thinking critically and more deeply about any subject. With Pear Deck, you can engage your students with fun, interactive custom and pre-made activities. Keep reading to learn how!
- Install the Pear Deck for Google Slides add-on or the Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online Add-in. You only have to do this once.
- Open a presentation.
- Open the Pear Deck Sidebar.
- In Google Slides, go to the Add-ons tab and click on Pear Deck > Open Pear Deck Add-on.
- In PowerPoint Online, click on the Home tab and click on Pear Deck.
4. With the sidebar open, you can add a Formative Assessment Slide Template for the beginning, during, or end of lesson, critical thinking, math, or other topics. You can find templates in the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, the Pear Deck Examples page, or by launching the Template Library within the Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online Add-in.
Let's start with a Slide Template for the beginning of the lesson. In the Slide Library, click on Beginning of Lesson to open all of the templates. Choose the template you want and click on it to add it to the presentation.
Notice the Pear icon at the bottom of the slide. The speech bubble lets you know this is a Text Response slide, so students will be able to respond by typing text. When you present this slide to students, they will be able to type an answer to this question. Right from the beginning of class, every student is actively thinking about the lesson and sharing thei