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Here are some fun and interesting activities that will help
your students become more familiar with the Companion Flag.
Teachers: We're always interested in new ideas for Companion Flag lessons
and activities. If you have some you'd like to share, please contact
us!
| Let's
Color Flags! (Ages 3 - 7) |
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| What better way
to learn about flags than to color
them!
Each full-page sheet has an outline
of a different national flag and Companion Flag, complete
with color prompts.
Click Let's Color Flags! (at right)
to access 30 printable sheets. To select sheets one at a
time, click here.
Or, choose the "Blank"
option and let your students' imaginations run wild designing
a family flag, or school flag, to fly above the Companion
Flag!
Required:
Colored pencils or
crayons
Copies of Let's Color Flags!
Teacher's Guide
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Let's
Color Flags! (.pdf)
Let's
Color Flags! - Blank (.pdf)
Teacher's
Guide (.pdf)
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| Flags
and People (Ages 8 - 14) |
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Here's an easy and fun way to introduce your students to
the paradox of humanity: the fact that we are, at once,
both different and the same!
Students will learn to identify
world flags, while pretending to represent a country at
a world conference of young people.
They are challenged to identify
experiences and concerns that are unique to the people of
their selected country (or to some subset of the world's
population which includes all or part of the citizens of
their country)—while at the same time
speaking to experiences and concerns shared by human beings
everywhere!
Required:
Colored pencils or crayons
Books or posters showing world flags
Copies of Flags and People
Teacher's Guide |
Flags
and People (.pdf)
Teacher's
Guide (.pdf) |
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The 3-Minute Self-Test (Ages
10 & up)
Adding the Companion Flag below the
other flags of the world is a serious matter. After all, it
means changing the world's symbolic landscape—a landscape
we've inherited from our parents, and they've inherited
from their parents, etc. It means changing the way
things have been done for many, many years.
There
are two "threshold questions" at the heart of the
Companion Flag project: (1) Are the things that we human beings
have in common real? and,
if so (2) Are they worthy of a symbol of their own?
The 3-Minute Self-Test is an interesting
(and revealing!) way to start a group or classroom discussion
around these important questions.
Required:
Pens or pencils
Copies of the 3-Minute Self-Test
A watch
A facilitator
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The CF Learning Poster (All
grades)
Dramatically increase student awareness of all that
human beings have in common while addressing—in a
unique and memorable way—behavioral and ethical issues
arising in the classroom, school, or community.
The Companion Flag Learning Poster is an interactive tool
giving students an opportunity to identify and record the universal
human desires, needs, and experiences that underlie behavioral
and ethical choices, as well as identify non-universal strategies
used to meet those needs. A clear understanding of the relationship
between universal human needs and experiences, and the role
of free will (moral autonomy) emerges. See examples in the Teacher's
Guide.
Required:
White poster board or construction paper
Classroom wall space to hang the poster
Teacher's Guide
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Teacher's Guide (.pdf)
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