- Countries
- Africa
- Algeria
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, Democratic Republic Of
- Congo, Republic Of
- Côte D'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Rwanda
- São Tomé And Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania, United Republic Of
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Americas
- Asia
- Middle East
- Africa
- Our work
- Hunger
- Get Involved
- News
Teachers against hunger
Simple Tools to Help Teachers Introduce Students to Hunger Issues
Getting classrooms involved in the fight against hunger is important to WFP. For teachers who want to start teaching about hunger and food assistance, it can be tough to know where to start. Our website has several great options for crafting a lesson.
The Power of Freerice In The Hands Of An Inspirational Teacher
Melissa is a middle school teacher in the United States. If you walked through her school, you might notice colourful cut-out bowls of rice decorating the hallway. Why? Trying to teach her students new study skills that would stick, she discovered something powerful about her students to tap into: their desire to help others in a big way. She shared Freerice.com with her colleagues and was inspired as one classroom set a school goal of raising 1,000,000 grains of rice. Along the way, she noticed that the grains of rice donated for every correct answer got her students excited about learning and propelled them to discover new subjects – like foreign languages. Not only did study skills become a habit: so did making a difference on hunger.
We reached out to her to learn more and here’s what she had to say.
Students In Washington D.C. Get Creative To Design Solve Hunger Advocacy Campaign
As teachers, when your students explore a new concept in the classroom you want them to think critically about it and not just memorize facts. For Tim Coleman, a service learning teacher at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington D.C., that meant coming up with a creative project that would challenge his middle school students to really engage with the issue of hunger and consider its global impact.
Resources for the Classroom
Here you'll find a list of resources to help you teach hunger in your classroom.
Free Rice
How can you change the world by playing an online trivia game? With Freerice you earn 10 grains of rice for each question you answer correctly. 94 billion grains have been earned so far, providing life saving food for more than 4.9 million people.