Freerice.com: Educational and Addictive (in a Good Way!)

Freerice.com is a game site that does good. When you play and get right answers, advertisers give to the United Nations World Food Programme (the world's largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger). You get the fun of doing well at the game, and people who need food get food.

The game is simple: you're asked a question and given four possible answers. If you guess the right one, you earn 10 grains of rice. If you guess wrong, you don't. Either way, you keep going.

The game is always challenging (but not too hard), because if you get a lot of questions right, it gives you harder questions, and if you get a lot of questions wrong, it gives you easier questions. So you always end up being at a level where you get some questions right and some questions wrong. It makes you want to try one more . . . and one more . . . and one more.

You can set up an account to keep track of how much rice you've won—and to challenge your friends!

You can choose from different subjects:

HUMANITIES

• Famous Paintings
• Literature (This is literature from all around the world.)

ENGLISH

• English Vocabulary
• English Grammar

MATH

• Multiplication Table (This doesn't get harder than 12 x 12.)
• Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)

CHEMISTRY

• Chemical Symbols (Full List)
• Chemical Symbols (Basic)

LANGUAGE LEARNING

• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian

GEOGRAPHY

• World Landmarks
• Identify Countries on the Map
• World Capitals
• Flags of the world

SCIENCES

• Human Anatomy

TEST PREPARATION

• SAT®

For younger students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, and Multiplication Table.

For older students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, Spanish (if they're taking Spanish!), and SAT.  The SAT practice questions cover both language arts and math. Great practice!


Here's a video made by some high school students who really like Free Rice!