How To Use Pear Deck

    

    Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on designed to help teachers create engaging slideshow-style content for the classroom and remote learning. Since this is Google-integrated, it allows teachers to create or edit presentations right there from within their own Google account.

    Create formative assessments easily using templates that are designed to work at the beginning, middle, or end of class. From custom questions to audio additions, Pear Deck offers lots of personalization for teachers. The idea is to combine slide presentations with interactive questions to help advance inquiry-based learning. This allows students to work independently both in the classroom as well as remotely. It is easily accessible from many different devices and is, amazingly, free to use.

How To Use Pear Deck with Google Slides?

1. Create the slides that you want to display to your students.

2. Then, use the sidebar menu to add interactive elements to each slide. You can do all of this with PowerPoint slides, too. The bonus with Pear Deck: You can turn any of those slides into interactive slides. While building, you can pick from four question types: 

• Draggable questions with agree/disagree or thumbs up/down.
• Drawing questions with free space or a grid for students to draw in.
• Free response questions with a short text, long text, or number capabilities.
• Multiple choice questions with the response of yes/no, true/false, or A, B, C, D.

Pear Deck also has a slide library where you can choose pre-created activities such as:

• for the beginning of a lesson (check prior knowledge, ask what students are curious about)
• during the lesson (summarize, assess learning, gauge understanding)
• at the end of the lesson (retell what they learned, share feelings)

3. Last, let’s get students connected to it so they can interact!