The Muppet Movie release A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit download A quick post, because it’s the weekend and we should all be spending time away from our computers :0 However, I caught this tweet from Ted Lai
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and thought it should be shared. A while ago my sister introduced me to Free Rice, a neat vocabulary review with a charitable twist. For those of you who are not familiar with Free Rice, Joe Wood posted a quick recap along with a great classroom use for the web site.
Apparently Free Poverty
works along the same concept of Free Rice, except Free Poverty tests your knowledge of geography and earns free cups of water instead of rice. For each correct answer, ten cups of water are donated (the funds for the water is generated through the advertising on the web site). Along with Free Rice, this web site makes a great opening activity when projected for the whole class to see. Unfortunately, I have found that it is much harder for me to donate water than rice (translation, my geography skills need some serious work). Thankfully the second time I played, I improved over the 37 points earned in the Easy Level on my first visit to the web site. For those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone or an iPod touch, both of these web sites work in Safari and are addictive enough to become staples when you have a few minutes on your hands.
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Thanks for sharing this site. I think its great to do whatever is in our power to donate to charitable organizations.
Thanks for sharing about Free Rice and Free Poverty. I am going to ask my students in my technology class, next year, to visit one of the sites daily.
I am familiar with freerice but not freepoverty. Either way it’s pretty cool knowledge helps with poverty around the world.
Sounds like a great site to motivate kids. Can’t wait to try it out with them.
I have never heard of free rice nor free poverty, however it is pretty neat because knowledge helps with poverty around the world
I think this free rice idea to use in the classroom is a fabulous idea. The vocabulary skills the students can gain is great. I love the idea that they can help others by learning more.
I think this is a great website for everyone to both learn and help poverty around the world. This is also a great tool to introduce to students so they can help other countries as they learn.
This is a great resource! I love the idea of projecting these questions for students to answer. The FreeRice site could be really addictive for someone like myself who loves learning new vocabulary words. Great stuff!
I think is a very good website in which it not only donating water and rice but it can be used in the classroom as an educational tool.
These two websites are a fantastic way to help our students with vocabulary and geography. We struggle so much with our student’s vocabulary- they just don’t seem to “absorb” new words. I think this would help. As for geography…now who has time to teach geography when I’ve got all these math and language arts standards I have to get to before the state tests! This would be wonderful just as an opener for the day, to use for transition time, etc. PLUS, it helps others around the world! Now it doesn’t get any better than that. I think my students would LOVE to help out this way! Thank you!
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