This engaging and easy-to-use card sort helps students identify and understand the key symbols of the French Revolution. It’s ideal as a starter, plenary, or revision task, and works well across a full range of abilities.

Students match nine key revolutionary symbols with their corresponding meanings, encouraging them to think critically about the ideas and values that shaped revolutionary France.

You’ll receive a fully editable A4 Microsoft Word document, so you can adapt it to suit your class or lesson objectives.

Learning Objectives

Theme: The French Revolution
Know: What were the main symbols of the French Revolution?
Understand: What did these symbols represent at the time?
Evaluate: Why do these symbols still matter to the French people today?

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: The symbols of the French Revolution
Can You Explain: What the different symbols meant at the time
Can You Analyse: Why these symbols remain important today

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