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 George Washington Carver “The Peanut Man” Directions: Go to kids.usa.gov/science, click on “Inventors and Scientists,” then “George Washington Carver”. Vocabulary: Agriculture -­‐ the science and business of farming. 1. (Intro) When and where was George Washington Carver born? ___________________________________________________ 2. (Intro) Carver is one of the nation's most famous ____________________________ scientists. He was born as a slave, yet overcame challenges to become one of the most famous African American Scientists. 3. (Intro) Carver is best known for his research on what food/crop? _________________________________________ 4. (Page 1) When he was a child, he was known as “the plant doctor.” Explain why people gave him this nickname. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. (Page 1) During Carver's time, people in the south mostly grew cotton. Why was this a problem? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6. (Page 2) Carver knew that peanuts could help solve this problem because they put nutrients back in the soil. Peanuts weren't a popular crop back then, but that would soon change. What did he tell farmers to start doing? __________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 7. (Page 3) Carver's plan worked! There were also many leftover peanuts and he came up with many other uses for peanuts except for eating them and helping the soil. In fact, he came up with over 300 uses! Name two of these uses: ___________________________________________________________________________________ 8. (Page 4) Peanuts became more and more popular. And by 1940, peanuts had become one of the top _____________ crops in the U.S.