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Instant Lesson Packages let you generate a standards-aligned Pear Deck lesson, Pear Practice Set, or Pear Assessment Test from a topic, an uploaded file, a website link, or a standard, without building the deck yourself.

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Create an Instant Pear Deck

  1. Sign in to your Pear Deck account and select Generate from Scratch with AI on your Launchpad.
Pear Deck Launchpad showing the Generate from Scratch with AI and Convert Curriculum Materials cards
  1. In the Instant Lesson Packages panel, choose Instant Pear Deck, or select Pear Lesson Package to generate a combination of a lesson, practice set, and test together.
Instant Lesson Packages panel showing the Instant Pear Deck, Instant Pear Practice Set, Instant Pear Assessment Test, and Pear Lesson Package options
  1. Under What are you teaching?, choose the content source for the deck. Use one or a combination:
    • Enter a topic, specific objective, or skill directly in the text field.
    • Click Attach to upload a saved file (.png, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .docx, .pdf, .html, .htm, or .txt), or a Material generated in Pear Start. See Use Pear Start with Pear Deck for details.
    • Click Link Website to enter the URL of an article or website. Instant Pear Decks can’t be generated from YouTube videos.
    • Click Select Standards to find and choose a standard by Standard ID, State/District, Subject, Grade Level, or Standard Set.
Create an Instant Pear Deck form with a topic entered in the What are you teaching field
  1. Select a Grade Level and Subject. Under Reading Level, choose Below, At, or Above grade level. Pear Deck creates a unique deck for each reading level you select.
  2. Open Advanced options to further refine the deck by Lesson Type and Content Intent, then click Create. Generation takes a few moments.
  3. Click View Lesson to open the lesson preview. Review the summary of the deck and all of its slides.
Bookmark or save the Share link to return to this lesson preview later. Instant Pear Decks aren’t saved to your Pear Deck account or District Library.

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Edit and Present the Deck

  1. From the lesson preview, click Copy to Google Drive or Copy to OneDrive.
  2. For Google accounts, click Make a Copy. A copy of the deck opens in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, where you can customize it like any other Pear Deck lesson.
  3. To edit the slide layout in Google Slides, click Slide > Apply Layout and select a layout.
  4. To edit the deck theme, click Slide > Edit Theme, edit the master slide, then click the X next to the Format options to apply your changes.
  5. To add or edit Pear Deck Interactive Questions, open the Pear Deck Sidebar and select a question type under Make Your Lesson Interactive.
  6. Click Start Lesson in the Pear Deck Sidebar to present the lesson.

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FAQ

Why does my Instant Pear Deck show firewall or security information instead of the content I linked? Some websites block tools from reading their content. Pages that require sign-in, use a CAPTCHA, or ask you to confirm you’re not a robot won’t generate a deck. Use a different source, or save a screenshot or print preview of the content and attach it instead. This tool can’t access content from private networks or an organization’s internal websites.

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Resources

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Last modified on July 22, 2026