Our school-wide focus this year is Making a Difference. One of the ways to do this is to make use of the site Free Rice, where you donate grains of rice with every click.
I've been wanting to write about this site for some time now, and many bloggers have mentioned it before me: Free Rice. Initially you could only play a vocabulary game, but now the site gives you different subjects to choose from like Grammar, German, Multiplications Tables, and more!
I've played the game with my class a couple of times, using the Interactive Whiteboard, to improve their vocabulary. They loved it, and I'm sure they're going to love practicing their tables this way too! It's an ideal whole class warm up before starting small groups. At the same time we are helping feed people who are less fortunate, and Making a Difference in a very real way!
To get a running total every time you play, you need to set your options like this. Every time you start, it will remember your total from the last time you played.I decided to see how the 'German' questions were, and to my surprise, I'm not as rusty as I thought! I managed to donate 1340 grains of rice in about 10 minutes. According to Lance Wiggs, 1000 grains is equivalent to 26g of rice. A child's portion is about 50g of dry rice, so if my calculations are correct, every 2000 grains can feed a child!
Is there any class out there who would like to take up the challenge this term, and try and see who can donate the most grains of rice?
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Philiipines is one of the countries experiencing hunger. one way the government can help the pupil's family, we gave 1 kilo of rice everyday. but this practice was only realized last year 2007. the government can't afford to give one kilo rice per family anymore this year.
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