What is FreeRice?FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program and partnered with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. FreeRice has two goals:
1) Provide education to everyone for free; and 2) Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
1) Provide education to everyone for free; and 2) Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
On the FreeRice Web site you can quiz yourself on a variety of topics at a variety of levels. For each correct answer you make, FreeRice will donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
Also on the site you can find links to the UN World Food Program, data about how the free rice has helped people around the world, and actions one can take to end world hunger.
- How could you use this Web site in your classroom?
- What interdisciplinary units of study can you see emerging from this web site and the information contained within?
- What other information can you share to help us teach about world hunger?
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