Flag Flash cards · for schools

Teaching with the cards

Real flag cards for group work, starters and displays, with five lessons that use them. They match Flag Flash on screen, so a lesson with the cards and a quiz you set online teach the same flags.

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Teacher pack, $59

A World box, a Look-alikes deck and the poster, with five lesson plans that use the cards. Schools can pay by purchase order.

Classroom set, $179

Six World boxes, enough for a class to play in groups of four or five, with a wall poster and the card lesson plans.

Printable decks, free with Pro

Teachers on Teacher Pro or a school license can print every deck for their class, as often as they like.

Five lessons with the cards

Lesson 1 · 10 minutes · Ages 7+

Flash round

Warm-up for any geography lesson.

Hold up a card for one second, then hide it.
Pupils write the country on a mini whiteboard. Show the back to check.
Ten cards, then put the ones most got wrong on the board and talk about what sets them apart.

Lesson 2 · 15 minutes · Ages 8+

Look-alike detectives

Observation and describing differences, with the Look-alikes deck.

Give each group four twin pairs, mixed up.
Groups match the twins, then write one sentence per pair on what tells them apart (shade, stripe order, emblem).
Each group teaches the class its trickiest pair. The back of each card names its twin to check.

Lesson 3 · 15 minutes · Ages 7+

Continent sort

Where countries are, using a continent deck or the World box.

Deal a mixed handful of cards to each table.
Tables sort them by continent on a large world map (the poster works), flag side up.
Turn them over to check: the region is on the back. Discuss any surprises.

Lesson 4 · 10 minutes · Ages 9+

Capital race

Capitals and fast recall.

Spread twenty cards flag side up on each table.
Read out a capital. The first pupil to put a finger on the right flag keeps the card.
Most cards wins. Swap the caller each round.

Lesson 5 · 30 minutes · Ages 7+

Design a flag

Symbols and colours, as a closing project.

Groups pick five cards and list what each flag's colours and symbols stand for (scan the QR code on the back to look it up).
Each pupil designs a flag for the class or the school, using at least two ideas from the cards.
Gallery walk: classmates guess what each design means.

Follow up online: set a quiz on the same region from your classes, or send pupils to the deck's page from the QR code on the insert card.

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We'll post your school a free sample pack: a handful of cards from each deck and a printed lesson plan, so you can try a lesson before you buy. One per teacher; we can post to the countries we ship to.

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