Give Rice to The Hungry
Throughout the world, natural disasters have struck leaving many people hungry. As my students learn more about the Myanmar tragedy and the Myanmar’s governments neglect to provide aide, they have discussed their desire to help. A website www.freerice.com is a website that allows them to do just that. There is no sign-up necessary! Students go to this website and play a vocabulary game. Words are presented and students are asked to choose the synonym. The students love to play and they learn new words. The whole time they are playing, they are infact helping to donate rice to the hungry. For each word the player gets correct, 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. This game has been online since October 2007. I wish I had known about it sooner! To date, 32,538,647,330 grains of rice have been donated through this game. Yesterday, 193,454,560 grains of rice were donated! This is an amazing program! Our class is going to play as much as we can to help!
