Free rice is a global awarness game where people answer questions to help other people around the world. You answer questions from many different catagories, from sciences to language. Every time you answer a question correctly you receive ten grains of rice to your bowl, for every five questions answered correctly you gain fifty grains of rice. When you decide to stop answering questions they choose donate and the United Nations World Food Program donate that many grains to a needy place.

“57,189,940 grains of rice donated yesterday.
Over 64 billion grains donated to date.”

http://freerice.com

I came upon this article looking for some new games. I thought it was pretty interesting becasue people are making an effort to educate America’s youth becasue most of their time they are playing games, so why not teach them through games? History games like Oregon Trail parents can buy for heir kids to learn about history. Or even games with current events like, Dafur is Dying which dramatizes the situation in western Sudan.

http://nten.org/blog/2007/06/21/online-civics-lessons-disguised-as-games

http://nten.org/blog/2007/06/21/online-civics-lessons-disguised-as-games

Saving quest is a game where players learn to handle money using expenses of everyday life. Players create themselves and chose a job. Then they go through a series of questions asking where they’ll live, different electronics, cars they’ll drive, etc. With those questions they will choose their favorite. Then they complete a simple task earning their week’s pay. Eventually you gain enough money to have your savings account. After you deduct all the expenses you try to have the most money.

Three Branches of Government Piggy Bank is an activity where students are given a paragraph with blanks to fill in. When they click on the space three answers pop up, then they have to choose one. Then they click check answers and how ever many they have gotten correct they get coins put into their piggy bank.

http://www.quia.com/cz/29317.html?AP_rand=1011249876

This quiz is about the fundamental Principles, Early Documents, Constitution, and the Preamble. Its a series of thirteen questions, the questions are all mulitiple choice. While taking the quiz it shows you how many previous questions you’ve answered correctly, incorrectly, and how many questions you have remaining.

http://www.quia.com/jq/67219.html

Citizenship  Fling the teacher is the game of fling the teacher but with citizenship questions. It’s still the same game, make your own teacher, answer your ten questions correctly to build the catapult, answer one final question and fling the teacher across the field.
http://webfc.rockingham.k12.va.us/%7Earuliffson/Citizehship%20Fling%202.swf?FCItemID=S008DB5C0

This is game where players are shown a flag from countries around the world.  There are fifteen questions in the game. If the player guesses the incorrect country they are show the flag of the country they have chosen and given another chance to guess the correct country.

http://www.primarygames.com/socstudies/countries/games/flags/question_1.htm

Players click a card out of the eighteen cards covering the picture. They receive a symbol that is on the face of the card that they have chosen. The symbols represent different American monuments and just symbols of our nation, including the White House, an American eagle, The Statue of Liberty, The Liberty Bell, and more. Players have to choose another card that they think has the matching symbol until all cards are matched and the picture is revealed.

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/july4/games/match_up/usa_match.htm

Name the President is a game that consists of ten questions. The player is show a picture of a past president. They are given four options, three of false presidents, one correct presidents name. When players get the question incorrect they are shown a picture of the president they chose and brought back to the four options. When they guess the name correctly they are told a little about the correct president.

http://www.primarygames.com/presidents/start.htm

Fact Match is game where the player gets a set of facts/questions each with a color. On the board above they match the color of the question/fact with the correct answer which is under another card on the board.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/card.shtml