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Free Rice

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Free Rice

Ashley Walker

What is Free Rice?

     Free Rice is a website created to provide free education as well as try to stop World Hunger. In 2007 when Freerice.com began, it was a vocabulary game but now more subjects have been added to help provide free education. This is a great site that allows for students to practice their skills in Mathematics or test their knowledge in Sciences and English while also educating them about the world around them, mainly world hunger. Students are benefitting themselves as well as helping to stop world hunger while using this site. Every little bit for their education and the donation of rice counts. 

How do you use Free Rice?

     Free Rice is fun and easy to use! Simply go to http://freerice.com and choose any subject of the following subjects to be tested on: Humanities, English, Math, Chemistry, Language Learning, Geography, Sciences, and Test Preparation for the SAT. The questions in each of these categories start out easy and as more and more questions are answered correctly, the questions become harder. For every correct answer 10 grains of rice are donated through the World Food Programme to help end world hunger. Students can register individually and keep track of how many grains of rice they donate, or classes can be registered and the class can keep track of their rice donations. There are specific directions for a teacher registering a class and the link is under the sign up link. Once a teacher has registered, there are teacher materials on the site for different content areas like lesson plans and certificates to award students. Lesson plans and other ideas can be uploaded and shared between teachers. 

 Ways to use Free Rice in an Elementary Classroom for Mathematics

1) One way to use Free Rice in the classroom is to use it as a practice place for students to practice their math skills. Free Rice is a great place for students to practice their math skills because the subjects continuously get harder as they answer more questions right, but if they get it wrong they have the chance to try again. The question will come back through and so they have the opportunity to correct their mistakes. 

2) Create a friendly competition in the classroom for students. Allow students to print off how many grains of rice they donated while practicing math and create an area where they can post their papers. Not only will the students get better at math, but they will also be showing off how they are helping to end world hunger. 

3) Use Free Rice as a class. Use a smart board so everyone can clearly see the question. Students can take turns going to the board and answering the questions and conversations can be started if students disagree. This gives students the chance to think out their math process or even show students another way to answer the same problem in a different way. 

Links About Freerice.com

http://edutechnoresources.blogspot.com/2011/06/free-rice-quizzes-student-will-love.html 

This link is helpful in some more ideas of how to use freerice.com in the classroom.

http://community.thinkfinity.org/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/6785-102-1-12079/FreeRice.pdf 

This link has explicit directions on how to register and the benefits of using freerice.com

http://teaching.monster.com/benefits/articles/6221-new-and-improved-free-rice 

This link tells a story about a teacher who uses freerice.com in her classroom and how her students love the site. 

http://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers/schools-in-action 

This website tells some stories about how freerice.com in schools has helped 

 http://freerice.com/content-blog-post/2nd-grader-hunger-fighters 

This is a link that shows a video of how freerice.com is used in a classroom. 

 

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