Teachers

Bring Freerice 2.0 into Your Classroom!

Published on 07 October 2010

There are 925 million people in the world who don’t have enough food – that means that 1 in every 7 people go to bed hungry.  And, hunger is still the #1 health risk in our world today, killing more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

So what can you do about it?  More importantly, what can you as a teacher do about it?

The answer is simple. Bring Freerice into your classroom!

The online vocabulary sensation has raised enough rice since its inception in 2007 to feed over 4.2 million people for a day, and now it is even better! With the new version of Freerice (Freerice 2.0) you still earn 10 grains of rice for every question you answer correctly, but now it is even easier to see how you are helping fight hunger worldwide.

Freerice 2.0 allows you to log in and track your earnings. And, you can create groups to hold fun, easy and educational competitions within your class or school.  

To help you promote your competition check out this flyer.  Just click, print and PLAY!

If you are having a competition we want to know about it.  Send us your school’s story with picture and we will publish it on our site.  To thank you for bringing Freerice into your classroom we will send you a special certificate signed by Nancy Roman, the Director of Communications, Public Policy & Private Partnerships for the UN World Food Programme.

 

 

 

Comments

by Ali | Sun, 11/07/2010 - 01:31

I am going to tell the school about FREERICE.COM

by Anonymous | Sat, 11/06/2010 - 19:52

I WISH our students could enjoy freerice in classrooms, but there is no internet connection at the University. I wish there was a chance to download it and upload our results later!

by Rosalyn Ram | Tue, 10/26/2010 - 01:38

This is just awesome!

by Graham | Mon, 10/18/2010 - 14:13

Wow - thank you all for the comments... For those of you asking how a school can track totals, it's easy!

With Freerice 2.0, you can create a group for your school, or for individual classes, and students and teachers can then register on the site, log in, and join the group. The groups' totals will be tracked automatically by the site, and members can post out their totals to their social networks!

Thanks once again for all your support - Freericers like you are making a real difference! Keep on clicking!

Graham - WFP Freerice Team.

by bella | Sat, 10/16/2010 - 07:49

lol this is hard

by Anonymous | Sat, 10/16/2010 - 00:58
I love this site! I think there should be like a video game thing where you travel through obstacles on the site and we can earn ten grains by getting them and avoiding the obstacles! Like: There is a stump and 10 grains of rice over it. You jump over the tree without touching it and get the grains of rice! That should be a part, and more people would come to Freerice.
by its personal | Fri, 10/15/2010 - 16:03
it feels good to help the needy.
by its personal | Fri, 10/15/2010 - 16:01
free rice rules
by Anonymous | Thu, 10/14/2010 - 14:05

nothing appears in the flyer D;

by ellen | Thu, 10/14/2010 - 02:15
I love this site. ♥ It feels so good to help those is need. Like a few players said, need more topics. :D
by Anonymous | Tue, 10/12/2010 - 21:19
this is so cool and i want to do more to help the people who are in need of help...
by winnie | Tue, 10/12/2010 - 17:33

this game is great. your kindness really helps the world a lot.

by alex H | Mon, 10/11/2010 - 21:46
You should make a music section that plays clips from famous classical and modern rock songs and asks to identify the song title or artist. also you could do a section about physics and the formula. calculus: derivative, intergrel and limit formulas. i could help you make the questions if you like i love all of these subjects
by Anonymous | Mon, 10/11/2010 - 08:35
COOL!
by Sally Babcock | Sun, 10/10/2010 - 13:36
Do you have a way for a school to track its progress and see how much rice it can raise?
by Sally Babcock | Sun, 10/10/2010 - 13:36
Do you have a way for a school to track its progress and see how much rice it can raise?
by sumithra.sm | Sun, 10/10/2010 - 07:26
i feel very lucky to play in this
by Andy | Sat, 10/09/2010 - 13:32
Just to help……
by Doug Ruffier | Fri, 10/08/2010 - 16:47
I have been holding Friday rice races for several years now. My classes compete with each other during the course of the year and the winning class gets doughnuts purchased by me.

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about the author

Emma Jane Keller

Youth Outreach Coordinator

Emma is a recent Auburn University graduate in the United States.  She is passionate about fighting hunger and in her free time she enjoys cooking, travelling, and jewelry design.