Share What You Know
Directions: Circle the numbers beside the two websites
you visited, and answer the questions below them. To go to the site to review
your answers, press the control (Ctrl) key on the keyboard while clicking the left
button on the mouse. You may work with your partner.
Student Name:
_____________________________ Date:
______________
George Washington Carver
1. Title: George Washington Carver File Name:
Enchanted
Learning
Questions:
1. Following the kidnapping of his mother, who
reared George Washington Carver?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. How do you think George Carver’s life as a
child might have compared to his life as a scientist? _____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3. What do you think George Washington Carver thought
about school, and why do you feel that way?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Title:
George Washington Carver Background Information and Activities File Name:
Brain
Pop Jr
Questions:
1. What did southern farmers
usually grow on their farms in George Carver’s time?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Contrast how cotton and peanuts affect the
soil. _____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why do you think George Washington Carver did
not give up trying to enroll in school, despite so many rejections from other
schools?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Title:
Voice of George Washington Carver
File Name: The New York Public
Library
Questions:
1. How many products does George
Washington Carver say he has developed?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Name one thing that he says he has made. _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Where do you think George Washington Carver
might be while recording this?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Peanuts
1. Title:
Peanut Plant Anatomy File
Name: Enchanted
Learning
1. What is another name for the stem of the
peanut plant?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Number the five steps for planting a peanut
seed in order from first to last.
_____ dig up the mature
plant _____ plant a raw peanut hull in soil ____
let the plant dry
______ keep soil moist and warm ______ roast and eat the hulled nuts
3. Look at the picture of the peanut plant. Explain
what you think might be the difference between a root and a peg.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Title:
How You Can Grow a Peanut Plant
File Name: About
Peanuts
1. List three materials needed to
grow a peanut plant.
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Number the five steps for planting a peanut
seed in order from first to last.
_____ cover peanuts
firmly ____ keep the soil moist and in a warm location
______ soak peanuts
overnight ______ plant peanuts in
soil _____ fill pot with soil
3. Why do you think peanuts might not grow if planted
in a pot?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Title:
Growing Peanuts in the Home Garden
File Name: Horticulture
& Home Pest News
1. How deep should you plant a
peanut seed?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do you think the peg curves downward
after pollination? _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why do you think the article warns readers
about mice?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
********Do not complete the section below until directed to do so by your
teacher. ********
This paper checked by
_____________________________________
The number of
questions that might need modification:
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References for
Material on this worksheet:
Col, J. (2007). George Washington Carver. Enchanted Learning. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/c/carver.shtml
Col, J. (2007). Peanut Plant Anatomy. Enchanted Learning. Retrieved January 19, 2008, from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/pages/peanutplant.shtml
George
Washington Carver. (2008). The New York Public Library. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/carver.html
George Washington Carver Background Information and Activities. (2007). Brain POP Jr. Retrieved January 18, 2008, from http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/biographies/georgewashingtoncarver/grownups.weml
How you can grow a peanut plant. (2007, November 2). About Peanuts. Retrieved January 19, 2008, from http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=72
Jauron, R. & VanDyk, J. (1997, December 23). Growing peanuts in
the home garden. Horticulture &Home Pest News, (volume
number unknown), p. 56.
Retrieved January 19, 2008, from http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1997/5-2-1997/peanuts.html