World Food Programme
Free Rice
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
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University of Texas: India: Major Crop Areas
From a 1973 map showing the major crops grown in India. This map from the Perry Castaneda Collection also shows the direction of the wind in the monsoon season and the winter flow.
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National Park Service: Teaching With Historic Places: Plantation Agriculture
This resource lets you explore the workings of southern plantations.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
International Year of Rice, 2004: Kids! Rice Facts
Kid-friendly questions and answers about rice, the way it grows, and the many uses for it.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
International Year of Rice, 2004: Rice Around the World
A detailed look at the role of rice in different countries and cultures.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
International Year of Rice, 2004: Rice and Nutrition
A detailed look at the nutritional value of rice.
Royal Botanic Gardens
Plant Cultures: Rice
Plant profile of rice. Covers history, spiritual, production and trade, traditional medicine, western medicine, food, crafts, cosmetics and other uses.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: History and Archaeology: Rice
Discussion of the Georgia rice industry and its importance as an agricultural commodity from the 1750s until the Civil War.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Strains and Sprains Are a Pain
What's a sprain? What's a strain? Find out in this article for kids.
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National Park Service: Rice Cultivation in Georgetown County
Describes the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing rice in the antebellum South. Contains review questions.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
In addition to explaining the nutritional value of foods in the "Bread, cereal, rice, and pasta," group, this website includes information on serving size and book resources on foods in the bread group. Also included is a recipe for...
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Rice
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Rice (Oryza sativa), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be found here.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
International Year of Rice, 2004: All About Rice
A list of the top ten countries that produce rice and a description of the conditions in which rice grows and is produced.
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National Park Service: Teaching With Historic Places: When Rice Was King
Lesson plan teaching the rice culture of Georgetown County, South Carolina in the 1700's.
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National Park Service: Plantation Agriculture: Coastal Rice
Brief description of coastal rice plantations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from the National Park Service.
University of Massachusetts
University of Mass.: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
At this website from the University of Massachusetts you can read about the different foods that make up the bread group in the food pyramid. Learn about the nutritional value of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta, and read about the...
Other
Metroactive: Scrt's 'The Adding Machine' Tots Up
Homepage for a theatre production of Rice's "The Adding Machine," the page also includes a brief explanation by Rice of his inspiration in writing the play.
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President Bush With Condoleezza Rice and Other Advisers
This profile is from September of 2001 and provides a European view of Condoleeza Rice early in her tenure as National Security Advisor to George W. Bush.