Showing posts with label Social Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Issues. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2007

428.1 FreeRice: Practice Vocabulary & Contribute...Multitasking At Its Best

At FreeRice, practice (and at the same time, learn) vocabulary and, as a big bonus, contribute to funds to help with world hunger issues.
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For every correct answer, ten grains of rice are donated to United Nations efforts to end world hunger. Needless to say, you won't be able to stop after just 10 grains. As you make correct word choices, the bowl fills up to make bundles of 100 grains.
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Your vocabulary level is measured by your right and wrong answers. The number of people who miss the same words also affects the leveling. Good language arts activity.
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Contributing...good community member.
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What else?
Math...use the statistics available to do some "real-world" math.
Geography...use the maps and information about the countries involved.
Social Studies...ALL the information about the social issues, history, etc. about the problem of world hunger and poverty.
Even Science...health issues, food production
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More information. Short video about the program from the director of the UN food program.
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Now I just hope it opens in the district!