You can find and buy practically anything on Amazon these days. It's where people go to find products, solutions to their problems, and ways to entertain themselves and others. Amazon is a social tool, in a way, in that reviewers can post their honest opinions and other users can mark them as helpful or not.

Amazon's home page shows what's popular in the moment. The home page template would be a great way to show what life was like in a certain year, decade, even century. Students show collections of items that consumers were most likely to buy with the most popular item displayed at the top.

The product search pages are a collection / curation. Students gather several items, people, places, etc. on the search page. Then, in a separate document or text box -- or in the speaker notes -- they describe why these items go together.

Amazon's product pages are how we gather information and evaluate products with images, descriptions, categories, and ratings. Students can describe and critique objects, people, places, and more that they're studying with product pages.

How would students post and reply on social media? Or how would someone you're studying post and reply? This template lets students practice digital citizenship. They can show what they know about the content AND model good practices in posting on social media and interacting with others.

HOW TO USE: Make a copy. Delete any slides you don't need. Duplicate slides as necessary. Assign to students.

How would someone rate the experience of visiting a location you're studying? Or the services of a character in a book? If one historical character left a Yelp review for another about his/her work, what would that character say? There's so much potential with this slide to display creativity.

Music says a LOT. The lyrics have a message. The song and album titles do, too. How students might curate a playlist could speak to what they've learned about content in your class. This template also includes some deeper thinking: a way for students to explain why certain songs make their list and their criteria for the list.

YouTube isn't always an option in the classroom. However, with this template, created by Paula Martinez of Slides Mania, you can create your playlists in Google Slides and keep the YouTube look. For example, students can break down a complex subject and show how they'd explain it in a series of videos.

This Netflix template, created by Nick LaFave, could be used for almost any subject area. Students can create a Netflix series for a math concept, time period in history, novel and so much more! 

This LinkedIn template created by Jen Walter can be used to create fake job applications for characters in a book, historical figures, or even for themselves! Jen used this template for when her science students  "applied" for the job of a cell organelle!

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? You can let students create those tweets with Google Slides!

Instagram Stories is a pretty popular feature, and it’s a great storytelling tool. Users can capture important moments of their lives in photo or video and string them together for others to watch one by one. Have students create their own Instagram story demonstrating a skill to teach others through video.

Students LOVE Snapchat games! You can tie them into your class WITHOUT needing the Snapchat app. 

Idea: In science class, use “My Face When” to personify things that happen in the scientific world, like “hyper” to describe how a catalyst works or “angry” to show how friction affects certain things.

Another fun Snapchat game is "Would You Rather". When you choose between two options and give a reason why.

Idea: In history class, use “Would You Rather” to show two choices a historical figure could have made. Students can choose which they would have taken.

Let’s use an app that millions of students already have access to — Google Slides — to recreate the TikTok experience instead of using the app.

Idea: Students can use this Google Slides template to create a PSA about something they are passionate about to share with their peers.

Students need to be 13+ and have a valid email address in order to use Facebook. So for those that teach younger students or want to use Facebook without going on the site, this Google Slides template created by Ryan O'Donnell is the perfect solution.

Some schools don’t have access to Pinterest but you can create the same Pinterest curation experience with Google Slides. With this template, created by Paula Martinez of Slides Mania, your students can gather and arrange images and information into look alike Pinterest boards.