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Build A Flag - PBS Kids GO!

Grades 0 to 5

This site tickles students' creativity by having them create flags all about themselves. Students choose colors, hobbies, pets, sports, climate and/or location, letters, and numbers to represent their personality and life. Once the flag is completed, students are able to print the flag, start over, or send to a friend. This site is simple to maneuver (simple "click and drag"). The site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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In the Classroom:
This is an excellent activity to do as a first week of school "ice breaker." Introduce yourself to the class by demonstrating as you create a flag about yourself. Share your favorite colors, name, favorite sports, hobbies, pets, and other information. Then have students work on individual computers to create their own flags. Print the flags and use them to create a "get to know the class" bulletin board.

Civil War for Kids - Pocantico Hills Central School

Grades 3 to 5

This site, created for students, by students, provides kid-friendly information about the Civil War – including a timeline of significant events, bar graphs containing data about the North and South, easy-to-read maps, depictions of Union and Confederate flags, and much more. Includes biographies of important Civil War-era personalities, links to related sites, and activity sheets.
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In the Classroom:
Use this site as a learning center or station to supplement a classroom unit on the Civil War. Have students look at all the aspects of the site, as some of the visuals are unique and provide something more tangible to bookwork and lectures.

CPC: Civil War Flags - Capitol Preservation Committee

Grades 6 to 12

This site is part of the state of Pennsylvania's Capitol Preservation Committee site and provides a searchable index of information about the state's extensive collection of Civil War flags. Each entry includes a description of the flag, information about how and when it was used, and an image of the flag. Sadly, there is no "zoom" option for the images so you cannot get a full screen image of the flag without the descriptions, nor can you focus on details. A few projectors have this zoom feature. You are lucky if you have it!
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In the Classroom:
The site would be helpful for students researching specific Pennsylvania Civil War units, or for teachers wishing to present images of Civil War flags as part of a discussion on battle tactics or military organization. The images of the "national colors" or U.S. flags may have interest beyond an examination of Pennsylvania's role in the Civil War.

Cyberschoolbus - United Nations

Grades 5 to 12

This expansive site promotes understanding of global issues using background information on the mission of the United Nations, country profiles, and downloadable curricula and lesson plans. A variety of cleverly designed interactive games challenge students to match countries and flags, test their knowledge of geography, or go on an interactive mission with "Pook" to save the world. There are many options for using this site in the classroom. Make the interactive activities part of an independent learning center, use the country profiles to introduce a geography lesson, or use the student-friendly resource to introduce the functions of the U.N. Qualify for free materials for your classroom by volunteering to review and test the site’s features.
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Flags of the World -

Grades 4 to 12

For younger students, this site has flags for just about any place you can imagine, along with an alphabetical index that's fairly easy to use. For older students, there are extensive notes on the history and evolution of many of the flags shown, along with discussion on how they should and should not be used. This is a great place if you need a flag!
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Flags of the World -

Grades 3 to 12

OK, it’s a site that list flags…but there are LOTS of flags. Thousands of them. Flags of countries, states, historical groups, religious organizations, darned near everything. On top of that, there’s lots of interesting narrative about many of these. It’s a great place to look for flag information for research projects.
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In the Classroom:
Elementary social studies teachers may find this one addictive.

Flags of the World - fotw.net

Grades 4 to 12

With 35,000 pages to explore and more than 60,000 flag images, this site probably contains the most extensive information about flags of the world than anywhere on the web. Pages are ordered by country for easy access to flags, or pages can be accessed by clickable maps. Search the site using its search engine for flag information. Click on the Links and Related Links to find additional information about countries and their map histories. Note: These links take you off this main site and some of those sites may contain ads that may be insecure. Vexillology (study of maps) enthusiasts have known about and contributed to this site for years. Classroom teachers can now reap from the informational rewards. This site does include some advertisements and custom flags for a fee.
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In the Classroom:
Social studies teachers, definitely save this site in your favorites for your state and country reports. Use the information provided for research projects.

Folding the Flag -

Grades 1 to 5

This site offers instructions for proper flag folding, along with a discussion of the symbolism contained in the flag folding ceremony.
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Guess the Flag - Guesstheflag.com

Grades 5 to 12

Think you know the flags of other countries? Test your skill at this site. Once given a flag, you have four choices of countries. After one chance at a correct answer, the answer is displayed along with a placemark on a map with statistics about the country. The country domain name is also displayed. The site also provides the name of the capital, population, Internet users, unemployment rate, and more. Advise students to ignore the ads that are along the sides of the site. Use this site as a cultural bridge to understand the rich history and viewpoints of other nations.
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In the Classroom:
This is a great site to use on your interactive whiteboard or projector to practice world geography. Use this site to identify the flag for various countries. Identify aspects of the flag and why those elements were chosen. Report on the history of element and color choices. Use the background information displayed and search for additional information for a conventional poster presentation or an interactive one using interactive whiteboards, powerpoints, wikis, or blogs. Have cooperative learning groups create online posters on paper using a tool such as Project Poster (reviewed here or PicLits (reviewed here. Compare different flags and understand the culture behind it. Learn other viewpoints by searching using the country's domain name. For example, search "financial crisis" or "green technology" by entering "site:de financial crisis" in the search bar to search items about the financial crisis for Germany.

Interactive Quizzes - Mrs. Bogucki

Grades 3 to 6

This website, created by a 5th grade teacher who once taught 3rd grade, presents a comprehensive list of interactive quizzes. Topics include Explorers, Jamestown, Flags of the World, Landforms, Iditarod Trail Trivia, Addition Word Problems, Calculating the Area of a Rectangle, Learning Decimals, Fractions, Weather Definitions, Homophones, geographic Regions of North America, and many other topics.
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In the Classroom:
These interactive quizzes would work well on an interactive whiteboard at the introduction to a unit (as an informal assessment of prior knowledge or anticipatory set to motivate students). They could also be used individually as learning centers to review and re-teach.

International Kids Club - Planet Pals

Grades 2 to 10

This International Kids Club site has activities, books, and crafts to help students understand each other around the world. Information links include lots of material on world clocks, religions, customs, organizations, and art. Specific links include “I” Kids, “I” Share, “I” Shop, “I” Learn, “I” Craft, and “I” Play. One fun part is finding out how speakers of different languages think animals sound. What is "meow" in an Asian language, for example? Sound files give examples of the sounds of many languages, as well. Some of the links are slow to open at times, so you may want to open them before you are ready to use them in class.
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In the Classroom:
Use parts of this site when doing units on prejudice, diversity, and discrimination. Refer students to do research in some of the books listed here on those subjects. Have students interview people from other cultures to check the information given here on aspects of their cultures. Do they agree with what is said here? Even younger students will enjoy learning about flags and peace symbols. Make the craft links available for students doing reports on different countries or preparing for an International Day. Have students copy flags or other country symbols. Ask them to create their own ”country” from these models. Challenge cooperative learning groups to research a specific topic at this site and prepare a podcast to share with the class using PodOmatic (reviewed here).

Language Menu Games - Learnwell Oy

Grades 6 to 12

This highly motivating site has many interactive language review activities. Most of the review does presuppose quite a bit of language study in the target language. There are currently 36 languages to choose from. (From matching games to picture recognition to translation practice, the site offers fairly sophisticated word practice. A flag-country matching game is of general interest to all students, not just language learners. There are many advantages in using this site for ESL or ELL students. The main advantage is the capability to choose a different language for questions and answers, thus assuring specific understanding of specific words with the definitions in their first language. This site requires JAVA. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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In the Classroom:
Mark this site in Favorites on your classroom computers for ESL and ELL students.. Provide information about this site to foreign language teachers in your school. This is a wonderful site to list in your class newsletter (if applicable) or on your class website.

World Flag Database - Graham Bartram

Grades 3 to 12

Users can find any flag in the world in this well-updated database. To search for a specific country's flag, simply click on the first letter of the country and thumbprint flags from all countries beginning with that letter come up. Besides coming to a full sized representation of the flag, readers also see important statistics such as religion, currency, and languages as well as important organizations the country belongs to such as the U.N. In one click, a contextual map of the country comes up.
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In the Classroom:
This is an easy-to-use fast reference tool for students. The site also sells flags, but you can ignore the sales portion. If your students do country reports, this is a one-stop site for them to find their country's flag. Perhaps they can use these ideas to design a flag for their own mythical country as part of a unit on government.

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