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Let them practise on their own Flash cards

Face-down card board

Every card dealt face down at once and opened in any order. Revision that feels like a game show wall.

When to use it

Revising facts a class must know by heart, such as symbols, dates or key terms, on the classroom screen. A starter where pupils take turns to call out which card to open next. The lesson before a test, when the board fills up to show how much has been covered.

What makes it this

Built on the Flash cards generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.

  1. Deal the cards as a board

    Every card is laid out face down at once and turned over in any order, instead of the deck dealing them one at a time.

    In the builder: How it plays › Cards & layout

  2. Number the cards

    In the builder: How it plays › Cards & layout

Preview

View only — copy it to play.

Twelve element symbols: open them in any order

Twelve cards, face down, in no particular order. Open any card, name the element before you turn it over, and read the answer — the card closes itself after a few seconds. The board is finished when every card has been opened.

12 cards

Why the example is built this way

  1. Short fronts, readable across the room.

    With twelve cards on the board each one is small, so put one or two characters or a single word on the front. Set Maximum cards per row to four and twelve cards lay out as three rows of four.

  2. Six seconds to read the answer.

    On a board, a card closes itself after it has been turned over. Pause between cards sets how long the answer stays up, and the two-second default is too short to read it. Players can close it sooner.

  3. Numbered cards and a closing message.

    Every player's board is shuffled differently, so Number the cards lets you say card seven and everyone finds it. Turn on Message when they finish too: the board has no ending of its own.

Build it yourself

  1. 1 Open the Flash cards builder and fill in the The cards tab.
  2. 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
  3. 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.

Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.

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