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Instructions for preparing your Pin Map Flags 1. Print each page you want to use. There are 4 sets in this material: 2 sets are color-coded, 2 sets are not.

2. Cut out each flag. 3. Fold each flag in half, then open with blank side facing up.

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4. Apply glue along the crease line and 1 half of the flag. 5. Lay toothpick or T-pin along the crease. (T-pin)

6. Fold the flag in half making sure the toothpick remains in the middle of the flag.

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7. You can use clear contact paper or clear packing tape to 'laminate' the flags by hand.

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clear contact paper clear packing tape

8. A piece of foam board is an excellent way to store your flags upright.

GeoF-89 World Continents - Pin Map Flags + Map Over 1200 available: http://www.montessoriprintshop.com © Montessori Print Shop 2012 The World South America

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Australia Antarctica

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Choose the term (, Oceania, or ) that suits your needs.

Oceania is a name used for varying groups of of the Pacific . In its narrow usage it refers to (including ), (including New ) and . In a wider usage it includes Australia. It may also include the . Although the islands of Oceania do not form part of a true continent, Oceania is sometimes associated with the continent of Australia for the purposes of dividing the whole world into continental groupings. As such, it is the smallest "continent" in area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.

Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, , and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of . The name was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia and the south east Pacific (Magellanica). Australasia is sometimes used as a term for Australia and New Zealand alone, in the absence of another word limited to those two countries.

GeoF-89 World Continents - Pin Map Flags + Map Over 1200 available: http://www.montessoriprintshop.com © Montessori Print Shop 2012 The World North America South America

Europe Asia Africa

Australia Antarctica

Australasia Oceania

GeoF-89 World Continents - Pin Map Flags + Map Over 1200 available: http://www.montessoriprintshop.com © Montessori Print Shop 2012 The World North America South America

Europe Asia Africa

Australia Antarctica

Australasia Oceania

GeoF-89 World Continents - Pin Map Flags + Map Over 1200 available: http://www.montessoriprintshop.com © Montessori Print Shop 2012 The World North America South America

Europe Asia Africa

Australia Antarctica

Australasia Oceania

GeoF-89 World Continents - Pin Map Flags + Map Over 1200 available: http://www.montessoriprintshop.com © Montessori Print Shop 2012