19. Flagpole
Description:
Have students…
A) Look at the sugar maple leaf and count its points. Compare this number with the number of points on the Canadian Flag maple leaf. Come up with one reason why the flag leaf has fewer points than a real leaf. Read page 20 in the book Canada’s Maple Leaf.
B) Match each card showing a Provincial or Territorial flag with the corresponding suggestion for recognizing it. Recommend how to remember the flags which have no suggestions.
C) Complete the Canadian Flags Identification Worksheet.
Materials:
- Canadian National Flag
- Book: Canada’s Maple Leaf: the story of our flag
- Photo or real leaf from sugar maple tree
- Set of cards showing Provincial/Territorial flags
- Set of cards with flag identification suggestions
- Table top cloth flags
Sources:
- Book: Canada’s Maple Leaf: The Story of Our Flag. by Ann-Maureen Owens and Jane Yealland. Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press, 1999. ISBN: 1550745166
- For suggestions of how to remember which flag is which, see here.
- Table top flag source