American Flag Scavenger Hunt - LPS



American Flag Scavenger Hunt

Using the List of URL’s, find the answers to this Scavenger Hunt.

1. What days should the flags not be displayed?

2. How should the flag be hoisted?

3. When is Flag Day?

4. When do most American Legions conduct a dignified flag burning ceremony?

5. The flag of one nation (may, may not) be displayed above that of another nation.

6. How many stars are there on the current U.S. flag?

7. How and when do you place a flag at half-staff?

8. How many stars did the first flag on Pikes Peak have?

9. “The Star-Spangled Banner” officially becomes the national anthem in what year?

10. ________________________ places the flag his wife sewed atop the North Pole.

11. Where is the flag that flew over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, flown today?

12. On ________________________, The American Flag is placed on the moon by Neil Armstrong.

13. Who made the first flag and when?

14. When are new stars added to the flag?

15. How many stars and stripes are on the flag?

16. Where may flags fly 24 hours a day?

17. Who requested a flag “ . . . so large that the British will have no difficulty in seeing it from a distance . . .”

18. What is the jack?

19. What is the ensign?

20. What is the canton?

21. What should you do when saying the “Pledge of Allegiance”?

22. What is done with worn or outdated flags?

23. Is it ever appropriate to fly the flag upside down?

24. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the back of an envelope. What is the source of the music for it?

24.When the South seceded from the Union, did President Lincoln allow any stars to be

removed?

25. To honor the soldiers that fought in the American Revolution, we fold the flag in the

shape of a _______________.

26. Which color on the U.S. flag represents courage, heroism and sacrifices?

27. Where is the original “Star Spangle Banner” on display?

28. May a citizen request to have an American Flag flown over the U.S. Capitol Building

in their name?

29. Which color on the U.S. flag represents purity of high ideals?

30. What do the stars on the flag represent?

31. Over the many years, how many different times have we had to add stars to our flag?

32. What is the name of America’s national anthem?

33. On the flag, what is symbolic of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has?

aspired?

34. List one of the reasons for flying the flag at half-staff.

35. What do the stripes on our flag represent?

36. Which color on the American flag represents strength and unity of all our states?

37. How many stripes are there on the American flag?

38. What is the nickname of the American flag?

39. On the flag, what is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun?

40. Have there always been 13 stripes on the American flag?

41. On what date do we celebrate Independence Day?

WHAT TEAM WILL BE THE MOST ACCURATE AND QUICKEST IN FINDING THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AMERICAN FLAG.

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Using the above questions and accurate answers to these questions, the Diff. Class will create a hallway wall presentation about the United States Flag for a summative grade. Displays will be created at home and presented to the class before being posted on the wall in our Eighth Grade Hallway.

For extra credit, regular classes may add construction paper panels, on any information about United States Flag, which was not mentioned in the above questions.

ALL STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN ONE WEEK TO COMPLETE THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENTS!

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