Here's what you need to start your own community projects.

Check out these sites to inspire and challenge your students:

Donate rice to hungry people while playing a vocabulary game! Free Rice lets your students earn 20 rice grains at a time. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good.

Visit the United Nations World Food Program to learn more about their successful approach to ending world hunger. Features humanitarian crisis updates, press releases from around the world, photo galleries, and educational video games to teach about the needs of starving nations.

Connect with like-minded educators from across the nation!The New York Times Learning Network provides news summaries for kids, lesson plans for teachers; all based on national and international current events.

The MAGIC Teacher has links, tutorials, and examples of media training projects around the world that enable children to get involved in media production. Students can read and explore links like Know Your Rights, Have Your Say, and Make Your Way in the Media. This is a goldmine of connections - BBC World Service and UNICEF to name a few.

Teachers Talking About Learning, an educational branch of UNICEF, links teachers to games around the world and interactive reflections sites. You'll find many opportunities to explore ideas, discuss issues, and take action with your students. All created in response to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Millenium Development Goals is an incredible UNICEF site which explains poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, environment, and development. Provides videos, news feeds, articles, and photo galleries to get your students' eyes wide open concerning the state of the world.

New Tools for Digital Learning includes step-by-step instructions on blogs, wikis, podcasting, etc. Empower yourself by learning to use the latest tech tools.

WITNESS is a site devoted to featuring online technologies that open people's eyes to human rights violations. This links to The Hub which organizes world-wide "Every human being has rights" projects. This is a powerful international campaign will raise awareness in your students and encourage them to understand and speak out about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Safely connect, collaborate and teach using leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts by joining a global community of connected classrooms through ePals.

Voices of Youth allows your students access to games, digital diaries, and international social action discussions. Full of links and resources to inspire and amaze kids.

TED features a video archive of inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers. This site is perfect for teachers needing motivation on any given social topic. Search engine themes include technology, science, culture, arts, and global issues such as poverty and education.

Freedom School
is a public middle schoolcreated in the honor of Paulo Freire. With it's focus on social justice and environmental sustainability, every student's differences are honored and celebrated and learning
is deep, powerful, and transformative. Be inspired by and collaborate with this powerful community of learners.

Learn about a first grade boy who took interest in a social issue on the continent of Africa, did his research and took action at Ryan's Well Foundation.

Watch and read Texas youth find voice and power through their poetry at the Texas Youth Word Collective.

Get tons of ideas, lessons and inspiration for empowering students to think more critically about media at the Center for Media Literacy.

Fight hate and prmote tolerance in your classroom with the help of Tolerance.org.