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Learning the history of the Arkansas Flag

June 15, 2012 Ticia 4 Comments

I was intrigued by the history of the Arkansas flag as I researched Arkansas for our homeschool geography lesson.  As we learn about different states and countries, we don’t often think about the why’s behind a flag.

Arkansas flag assignment

Here’s what I found out about the Arkansas flag

  • The large diamond is to represent Arkansas being the only state to produce diamonds.
  • The 25 stars inside of it are because Arkansas is the 25th state to enter the Union.
  • The top star in the middle is because Arkansas was part of the Confederacy.  The lower 3 stars are for France, Spain, and the United States, the other 3 countries that had ruled over Arkansas.  Information from 50 state flags

Geography assignment: Design a flag for your own state

geography assignment design a flagAfter teaching them all about the Arkansas flag, we took the time to design our own flags.  Since our homeschool co-op consists of kids ranging in age from my kids (kindergarten) up to 4th grade most assignments have two different difficulty levels.  For the younger kids all they had to do was draw a flag and explain out loud why they chose their design.  The older kids were required to write a sentence or two explaining what their thoughts were.

flag design for Arkansas flag

I got Mac playing with Batman, and Robot Boxing from another kid (who’d just spent the last hour telling me all about Robot Wars).  It just went downhill from there, ending with Princess who just sat there and stared outside.

I could tell everyone’s minds weren’t really on the lesson as we went through because we had some really gorgeous weather outside, so I cut everything short and sent them outside to play.

There’s some battles you can’t win, so I sent them outside and they played……..

playing after Arkansas flag lesson

 

geography 50 states study, Arkansas

Comments

  1. MaryAnne K says

    June 15, 2012 at 2:04 am

    Those outside photos are great! I had no idea that the Arkansas flag had so much history built into it!

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  2. Raising a Happy Child says

    June 15, 2012 at 2:36 am

    It's interesting to learn history behind some of the symbols. I am with you – sometimes the learning battles cannot be won, at least not without major bloodshed.

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  3. Phyllis says

    June 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    That is interesting! I will have to take a look at all the state flag histories!
    Yes, I have had my share of sending them outside…like shortly after the photo I featured this week. LOL

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  4. Having Fun says

    June 16, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Interesting. I didn't know any of those facts about Arkansas. I didn't know any state produced diamonds. Cool!

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