Free Rice Game

Free Rice

This interactive online learning tool has gone through some changes – so now it’s the “new” Free Rice. Same great learning, same great humanitarian cause.

To see the different categories for learning and practice scroll down the multi-bar icon on the upper left.

Game:  https://freerice.com/game

About Free Rice

How does Freerice work?

As you play Freerice and answer questions right, advertisements appear on your screen. When you see one of these advertisements, you trigger a financial payment to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.

In the game, these payments are represented via grains of rice. The amount of money generated when you see an advertisement can vary, but is roughly equivalent to what the World Food Programme spends to purchase 10 grains of rice.

By playing, you are generating the money that pays for this rice. This money is used for many types of assistance — not just rice — depending on where needs are greatest. Regardless of the type of assistance, you can be sure that 100% of all funds generated on Freerice go to the World Food Program, and 93.5% of every payment received by the World Food Program goes directly towards helping children and their families. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises.

Where does the rice go?

WFP doesn’t use the funds raised via Freerice to only purchase rice. Instead, money raised via Freerice funds a variety of WFP projects around the world, depending on where needs are greatest.

The ‘food basket’ is what WFP calls the mix of foods provided to people in different places around the world, depending on their emergency and nutritional needs, local customs, and other factors. In countries where rice is a staple part of the diet, WFP provides, on average, about 400 grams of rice per person, per day (for families, including children and adults). This is intended for two meals that include other ingredients to ensure a minimum of 2,100 kilocalories per day. There are approximately 40–50 grains of rice in a single gram.

Distance Learning Resources

Hello DDS Community

 In an effort to provide distance-learning resources for parents, teachers and students I will be listing worthwhile sites with a brief explanation of what the site is teaching, how navigable it is, and for what grade level. I’m going to include sites for all ages and abilities in an effort to cast a wide net of potential learning.

So our journey begins …

This site is from Annenberg Learner Media.
I've used Annenberg extensively through the years and everything they produce is excellent.
 I selected the middle school level for these resources - but there are endless options with Annenberg.                                                                                                                                                                 Take Care!
Kathleen

 About Annenberg Learner

As part of its mission to advance excellent teaching in American schools, Annenberg Learner funds and distributes educational video programs – with coordinated online and print materials – for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home, with videos that exemplify excellent teaching. Annenberg Learner also partners with impactful organizations to provide other means of achieving this goal. As part of the Annenberg Foundation, Learner supports the Foundation’s mission to encourage the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

K-12 educators, students, and lifelong learners may access Annenberg Learner resources for free at Learner.org. 

https://www.learner.org/search/?_sft_series-type=classroom-resources&_sft_grade-level=6-8

Author visit by Tom Noel is postponed

Unfortunately the event below is now postponed until later in the spring.
Please keep checking back for more information!

We are very fortunate to be hosting author and historian Tom Noel at the DDS library on Saturday, March 21st from 12 noon until 1:15pm.
Tom will be presenting a talk and slide show on the history of the Park Hill area. Lunch is provided and Tom will be signing and giving away ten of his Denver history books.
Please come!
Students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Teachers, staff and community members are encouraged to attend this wonderful opportunity to learn more about their community greater neighborhood!

A little about Tom Noel:
Tom Noel, PhD, professor of history and director of Public History & Preservation, was appointed by History Colorado and started in the post on Aug. 1, Colorado Day.

Professor Tom Noel has been named State Historian for Colorado.

The role of state historian is itself a part of the state’s history; since 1924, History Colorado has appointed a state historian to help the organization preserve, interpret and share Colorado’s past.

 Historian and author Tom Noel will chair the first State Historians Council for Colorado’s historical society, which operates the History Colorado Center museum in downtown Denver and others around the state. Noel is a professor and the director of public history, preservation and Colorado studies at the University of Colorado Denver. He is coauthor of “Colorado: A History of the Centennial State” and is known as “Dr. Colorado” for his books, TV appearances and articles discussing the state’s history. He also is a tour guide for History Colorado.

February DDS Library Newsletter

DDS Library February Newsletter   2/20/2020

DDS Library was very pleased to be the setting for the two performances of At the Table with Dr. King by the Mizel Museum. The multimedia tribute to Martin Luther King provided the students, teachers, administrators and district personnel a sensitive and inspirational look at Dr. King’s life and legacy. We were all engaged and enlightened!

At this writing … The much anticipated Quilt Project is still in the staging zone – the heirloom quilts are not yet hung up in the library. I have full confidence that we’ll get them displayed soon. We remain flexible!

The library was transformed into a breakfast burrito café on the sixth as we raised money to send our wonderful Nurse Latisha Cain to a banquet March 7^th (which recognizes the nominees for the Nightingale Luminary Award). Many educators from both DDS and Swigert not only purchased my homemade burritos (thank you!) but many donated extra cash to get Latisha the tickets! 

The library was happy to host a Geobee competition this month. I was impressed how well the students performed. My Colorado Geographic Alliance friends can rest easy about the state of geographic education with our young people!

I am continuing to scan all the books that were placed in the library by DPS Library Services over the summer. Unfortunately many of the books do not appear as part of our collection when scanned. I can manually place the majority of these titles into our inventory with just a couple of extra steps. The titles that don’t show up as part of DPS are put in a school mailer and sent to the kind and hardworking catalog crew at ETLS. I am trying to send just a couple a few a week - but I’m sure they are beginning to dread those mailers from DDS!

Six boxes of new books have arrived this week for the DDS library! These fabulous books are part of the “boost” grant and I am so excited to get them on the shelves.                                                                         Thank you again to DPS Library Services!

On Wednesday of this week the library was the impromptu setting for the much anticipated visit from the Denver Nuggets staff to honor Coach Williams for his MVT award. Nuggets veteran Ervin Johnson (and mascot Rocky!) excited and inspired the students with a lengthy afternoon visit … complete with cookies! We are so glad Aaron is being recognized … and we applaud his continued dedication.

Earlier this month DDS Library was awarded the A to Z grant from Denver Public Schools! The grant will allow us to host several parent/student/author visits here in the library, either as evening events or as Saturday lunch gatherings, and is called the Discovery Reading Project. The Discovery Reading Project will immerse our students and their parents/guardians into local and unique literary opportunities that they can enjoy here in the DDS library, and then build upon at home. Thank you Denver Public Schools A to Z Foundation!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
We are back from winter break and ready for a productive second semester!
This week I am continuing to sanitize the picture books in an effort to mitigate all the germs being transferred in the library. We have had too many students and teachers getting sick - whatever we can do to help is worth the effort!
Next week I'll start sanitizing the graphic novels.