College Readiness - Types of College Degrees Pear Deck

Use this interactive Google Slides Pear Deck presentation to help your high school students with college and career planning and increase their college readiness by teaching them about the different types of college degrees. Lesson plan included!

⭐️ These slides introduce students to the different types of college degrees, including general program lengths, requirements, and possible areas of study and future careers.

⭐️ Click here to learn more about Pear Deck or watch this video! Pear Deck is a great Google Slides Add-on to get more student engagement and make your lesson more interactive!

⭐️ I also have this same slide deck without the Pear Deck Add-on. Click HERE to get it.

⭐️ There are Pear Deck slides with questions at the beginning of the Google Slides presentation to activate students’ prior knowledge, temperature checks throughout the presentation, and higher-level questions at the end to stimulate critical thinking. The presentation will open in Google Slides, but you will need to get the Pear Deck Add-on if you don't already have it.

NOTE: This product is also included in this bundle.

⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED (a full 5E lesson that takes students through the entire learning cycle!):

• Engage: Question to hook students.
• Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before the beginning the lesson.
• Explain: In this lesson, students learn about the four college degrees (Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, and Doctoral Degree) as well as what a certificate is.
• Elaborate/Extend: Discussion questions at the end of the presentation AND an editable extension activity asking students to interview five adults, one with each type of degree, OR you can delete it and choose your own extension activity; there's an editable slide at the end of the slide deck).
• Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
• Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!

⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much discussion and other extension activities you include. You and/or your students can get through it in one class, or you might spend two to three days or more on it if you assign the extension activities. Instructional time also depends on your students’ levels. Please be sure to read the “Suggestions for Use” below!

⭐️ This lesson has it all:

• Explicit instruction: This lesson is direct and systematically chunked following a 5E lesson plan and guides students with a clear purpose/essential question, explanation, and supported practice/extension.
• 21st century skills: Students use media and technology literacy skills with this interactive Google Slides presentation and use critical thinking, collaboration, and communication with all the opportunities for discussion.
• Multi-modalities and hands-on learning: Students view and/or listen to the presentation, write and talk about their learning in “think-write-pair-shares” and discussion groups, and possibly more depending on what you assign in the extension, such as producing an essay or video to demonstrate understanding and synthesizing ideas.
• Differentiation: Depending on students’ levels, you could present to the class as a whole and/or assign students to view the slides independently or in small groups and answer the questions as you see fit.
• Scaffolding: This complete lesson comes in manageable parts, from activating prior knowledge to reflection and assessment, and can be teacher- or student-paced.
• Higher levels of questioning: The discussion questions require higher-level thinking such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
• Real-life connection: The college and career-readiness topic and essential question are meaningful and relevant to students’ futures.
• Student choice: To add student choice, give students options of strategies, tools, and/or extension activities.

⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson and/or whole class presentation!

⭐️ This interactive Google Slides presentation can be used with distance learning, face-to-face instruction, OR a blended, hybrid, or flipped learning approach in an English language arts, AVID, advisory, or other class. Counselors can also use this product to give a college readiness presentation to a large audience or help students one-on-one or in small groups.

⭐️ You might also like this slide deck on Types of Colleges.

⭐️ This lesson has it all:

• Explicit instruction: This lesson is direct and systematically chunked following a 5E lesson plan and guides students with a clear purpose/essential question, explanation, and supported practice/extension.
• 21st century skills: Students use media and technology literacy skills with this interactive Google Slides presentation and use critical thinking, collaboration, and communication with all the opportunities for discussion.
• Multi-modalities and hands-on learning: Students view and/or listen to the presentation, write and talk about their learning in “think-write-pair-shares” and discussion groups, and possibly more depending on what you assign in the extension, such as producing an essay or video to demonstrate understanding and synthesizing ideas.
• Differentiation: Depending on students’ levels, you could present to the class as a whole and/or assign students to view the slides independently or in small groups and answer the questions as you see fit.
• Scaffolding: This complete lesson comes in manageable parts, from activating prior knowledge to reflection and assessment, and can be teacher- or student-paced.
• Higher levels of questioning: The discussion questions require higher-level thinking such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
• Real-life connection: The college and career-readiness topic and essential question are meaningful and relevant to students’ futures.
• Student choice: To add student choice, give students options of strategies, tools, and/or extension activities.

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