The phrase "explain to the students" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to indicate that someone is providing information or instruction to a group of students. For example: "Please explain to the students the guidelines for the group project." "The teacher took the time to explain to the students the complex topic in a way they could understand." "In order to better understand the lesson, the teacher asked the students to explain to their classmates the concept they had just learned."
She tried to explain to the students what they were doing wrong.
"We do carefully explain to the students their potential responsibilities in terms of employment law.
But, oh, the difficulties I had to explain to the students that they should be interested in our culture, for the sake of reciprocity.
It was hard to explain to the students that to a cultivated homosexual writer like White, son of a great pastoral family, Sydney and Melbourne in the early 1960s were the capitals of an inferiority-stricken culture which considered that literature, unlike Test centuries and fine wool, derived from other, northern climes and need not pre-occupy Australians either as creators or consumers.
Initially, the trainer adopted an explicit instructional approach as he needed to explain to the students what was to occur in the lesson.
I tried to explain to the students that the easiest way to achieve happiness is reaching out and giving someone a hand-up.
In such a case the adviser should explain to the student that the adviser, while noting positive aspects of the student's work, cannot recommend them for this particular position".
I quickly put a stop to those, but of course not without explaining to the students why it was wrong.
Dennis L. Meadows, the inventor of Fish Banks and a professor of systems management at the university, explained to the students the software nuts and bolts behind their successes and failures as entrepreneurs -- what rules governed fish reproduction, for instance.
Pouring cooked spaghetti out of the pot, Dr. Weitz explained to the students that the strands entangle and rub against one another and that the friction slows their movement, increasing the viscosity.
It's like a D.A. who visits schools where crime and drug use are widespread and explains to the students, "Look, this is why this is happening to you".
