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Lessons built on a flag game

CountryClue is a free pixelated flag quiz with no ads and no accounts. These are ready-to-teach lessons that use it: plan, worksheet, rubric and printables, each a single download.

Lesson 01 · Geography × Art × Civics Good Flag, Bad Flag: a design lab with pixels Students play ten rounds, collect class data on which flags survive the blur, rediscover the five NAVA design principles from that data, then design a flag and pixel-test it. Pairs with Roman Mars's TED talk. Ages 11–16 · 90 min · 4 PDFs · classroom link

Lesson 02 · Modern languages · coming soon Countries and nationalities, in the target language The same game with answers locked to Spanish, French or German. A warm-up for the "países y nacionalidades" unit that students actually want to repeat.

Who makes these

The lessons are written by Tim White at CountryClue. If you tried one with a class and something was off, or you want a lesson for a unit we don't cover yet, write to tim@countryclue.online. Teacher feedback is what changes the materials.

Use the game in any lesson

Any sequence of flags can be fixed and shared with a classroom link. Add ISO country codes, in order, after ?classroom=:

https://countryclue.online/?classroom=no,se,dk,fi,is — the Nordic cross family
https://countryclue.online/?classroom=ar,br,cl,co,pe,ve,uy,py,bo,ec — South America

Every student who opens the link gets the same flags in the same order, and at the end a Copy results for teacher button. The link builder on the lesson page lets you pick from all 196 countries without looking up codes.

Daily Flag mode (one flag a day, the same for everyone) makes a five-minute bell-ringer with no preparation.