Today's Classroom Activities :

National Rice Month

Global Food
Social Studies During National Rice Month, take time to illustrate for your students how much of the world relies upon rice as a staple. Read aloud how rice is grown. Prepare long-cooking white or brown rice in your classroom the way that many people in the world eat it – overcooked a bit so that it sticks together. Give students bowls of plain rice to eat with their fingers. Research its nutritional value. Discuss how people in the poorest countries of the world use rice to survive.

The Rhythm of Rice Production
Students will explore the importance of rice in Asian communities. They will then learn about the "rhythm" of rice production as they are introduced to its growing cycle. Finally, students will create seasonal images of rice cultivation in a calendar format.

Free Rice
Here is this great vocabulary building game about Rice! Your students can match the word to the meaning, if they get it wrong they are given the answer but if they get it right, that is when it gets interesting. First, they'll get a new word and the difficulty builds. Second, for each word they get right 20 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Program. Now have your students go play, learn and help feed other children.