www.freerice.com
is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse.”
- CBS Evening News
freerice.com is a website that students can go on and gain more knowledge with every answer they answer and help feed the world. In my class, I often ask, "Did anyone help save the world last night?" Children often respond by telling me how many grains of rice they donated.
This program, a United Nations World Food Program, donates 10 grains of rice for every answer they get right. Subject areas are art, chemistry, vocabulary, grammar, countries, world capitals, languages including French, Italian, German, and Spanish, along with basic math, and multiplication.
Some days we head the the computer lab and "save the world" as we learn in school. Measuring, estimating, and calculating small mounds, medium mounds, and huge mounds of rice would be a great math activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWcuBygAUw
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