📝 7 end of year Google Slides templates

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The May Adobe Edu Challenge invites you to create an infographic summarizing your top five school year highlights using generative fill to add images! 🎉 

Have students brainstorm their top 5 lessons learned. Top 5 work they’re most proud of. Top 5 funniest things someone said in class!

This template is ready to copy and assign to students in Adobe Express right away!

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📝 End of year templates to help students thrive!

End the school year on a high note! 🎓✨

As the school year draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect and celebrate the journey. Dive into our updated blog post featuring 10 FREE end-of-year templates that will help students and educators alike to capture those memorable moments and plan ahead.

Here are five of our favorites:

📝 Sum Up Your School Year

Help students craft vibrant slides with amazing animations, beautiful graphics, and engaging audio to share what they have learned this school year. Plus they can collaborate with classmates and present, all within Adobe Express. This challenge includes an editable template and tutorial video.

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🏆 My Learning Awards Board

The My Learning Awards Board template is a simple one. They pick out three of their favorite things they created or did in class. Then, they describe each and why they were a success.

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📆 Year in Review

This Adobe Creative Express template is very visual and a quick way for students to display some of their end of the year reflections: successes and challenges, ways they've learned and grown!

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🤔 Reflecting on My Learning

The Reflecting on My Learning template gives them choice on how they reflect, providing 18 reflection prompts. Students copy/paste six of those reflection prompt tiles from one slide onto the activity and respond to each. That way, they can self select which prompts fit the work they did -- and the lessons they learned individually.

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✅ Prioritize Your Week

The Prioritize Your Week Template lets students list all of their upcoming work for the week in the left column -- AND their obligations for family, clubs, teams, and other events in the middle column.

When they make a plan for what they'll do when, they can use draggable circles to prioritize. They use a common, simple protocol: A for most important, B for next most important, and C for important but not pressing. You can prioritize each category with numbers.

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🎯 Quick Teaching Strategy

Tweet for someone

What would happen if a character in a story you’re reading tweeted about an event in the story? Or about an event in current events … or in another story? What if a scientist or mathematician or notable character in history tweeted?

Turning a simple summarizing activity into a social media style post turns the engagement way up! Use this activity as an exit ticket or a way to get students discussing the content more deeply.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Use this Google Slides template. (Make sure you make your own copy.)

2. Create a slide for each student.

3. Share the slide presentation with your students (through Google Classroom, through a learning management system, with a link using the blue Share button). Make it “Anyone with the link can edit”.

4. Students jump on their own slides and add the following: a photo, the name of the person tweeting, the Twitter username (start it with @), and the tweet.

   Ninja tip: To turn the photo to a circle, click on the photo and use the dropdown button next to the crop tool to select a circle as the crop shape!

Want to use PowerPoint instead? Sure! Just download the template here.

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