FLASH CARDS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH FOR THE 2025 CIVICS TEST

 FLASH CARDS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH FOR THE 2025 CIVICS TEST

(from Maya East Bay Sanctuary Covenant)

I want to offer a resource I created for citizenship programs. I work at East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and I coordinate and teach classes for our citizenship preparation program. I saw the need for flashcards for the new test, so I made them!

Below I'm sharing more information about the flashcards and how to print them for your programs.

You can view the 2025 civics flashcards set here. They are in English with Spanish translations below. I made the designs in Google Slides and printed them as flashcards for our students and clients. Here is a video tour of the printed cards.

Why I created these: As you likely already know, the new test is significantly harder, and I have heard directly from a USCIS liaison that the government has no current plans to create or distribute study resources. I saw a clear need to develop a highly visual, simple study tool that would fill that gap. Now I'm hoping to share it as widely as possible.

My approach: In developing the slides/flashcards, I chose the simplest answer possible for each question and included only that answer to avoid overwhelm. I tried to include thoughtful and engaging visuals and categorized the questions as "simple" and "challenging." I flagged all the questions that are geography/time-dependent so they can be modified as needed by other instructors.

How to print/logistics: The slide deck is already formatted as 4"x6" so the cards are print ready. Here's a simple instructions page that walks you through the process of making a print order of the flashcards with Greener Printer. I printed an order of 60 flashcard sets and it cost a little under $10 per pack. The cards are expensive, and unfortunately a lot more than the free government-issued flashcards we were getting previously, but maybe some organizations can take student donations or just buy a couple of classroom sets.

Please let me know if you have questions and if you do end up using this resource. Feel free to share widely with your network and let me know if there are other organizations or listservs you'd recommend I share with. It took me a long time to develop these and I haven't seen another similar resource, yet, so I'm hoping to be able to distribute them as widely as possible to help programs and individuals adapt to this new, more challenging civics test.

You can find all of the resources I've linked to above in this Google Drive folder.

Thank you for your time and for all you do for your programs.

In solidarity,

Maya Kandell <maya@eastbaysanctuary.org>

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