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

          Make sets of cards by taping photocopies of flags onto index cards
          (http://www.thecanadapage.org/Provincial_Flags.htm)

          For suggestions of how to remember which flag is which, see:
          http://www.umaine.edu/canam/k-12outreach/LrnProv/prov.htm

          Table top flag source:  http://www.flagworks.com
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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 page.

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