How to Build Customized Study Guide Flash Cards
Flash cards are excellent study tools, especially for languages and mathematics. The main time spent in building your own flash card set will be in preparation while gathering and determining which materials need to be studied and reviewed. There are many options for customized flash cards, including handmade ones, printable ones and even reusable flashcards that have a recorder/reader device. If you build a lot of sets of handmade flash cards with students, purchase the giant packages of blank flashcards, which are larger than index cards and don't have any lines on either side.
Things You'll Need
- Course curriculum
- State standards
- Paper
- Card stock
- Blank flash cards
- Printer
Instructions
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Determine the courses, lessons, chapters or materials that need customized study guide flash cards. For a language course, all chapters with vocabulary will need flash cards. For science or math courses, only some chapters lend themselves to being applicable for customized study guide flash cards. Shapes or angles in mathematics can be learned easier with customized flash cards.
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Fold a piece of paper in half or draw a line down a piece of paper from the top to the bottom. The first column represents the front side of the flash card or side A and the second column represents the back side or side B.
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Now list the material the needs to be covered in the columns, using the side A and side B format. If you are building a customized study guide flash card set for an entire course, then just start at the first lesson. Or start in the chapter or semester you are currently teaching to build a customized study guide flash card pack for the whole year as you work through it.
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Decide whether you want to build the study guide flash cards yourself out of card stock and using your printer and programs, or whether you want to use a program online to make printable flash cards or order customized flash cards online. Check out all your options and select the one that makes the most sense.
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Consider laminating all customized study guide flash cards. The entire pack of customized flash cards can be taken to a local office supply store for laminating per sheet--several cards will usually fit on one sheet, and then they will be cut. Cards can also be laminated using do-it-yourself, self-gluing, no-heat laminate sleeves available online or at local stores or by using a laminating machine using heat with sleeves or rolls.
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Tips & Warnings
Laminating your customized study guide flash cards is a great way to make them waterproof, almost wrinkle-proof and more durable.
There are new reusable reader recorder flashcards. These cards are reusable and have a recording device to read the cards to assist with studying.
Some printer models can print directly on blank flash cards.
Consider splitting the cost of a laminating machine with others.
