Learn about the interesting life of George Washington Carver and his many accomplishments with this series of worksheets for primary grade learners. From coloring pages and word searches, to non-fiction reading passages and math skills...

Using video clips along with primary and secondary documents, scholars analyze the life of George Washington Carver, one of America's best scientists and inventors. Class members then create music, posters, and skits about this amazing...

Learn about George Washington Carver's important contributions to agriculture by studying the sweet potato. First graders read about the inventor's observations and prepare sweet potato slips for the class garden. Additionally, they...

Students discover the agricultural contributions of George Washington Carver. In this George Washington Carver activity, students discuss the peanut plant and all the ways Carver used it. Students view photographs of the agricultural...

Students read about George Washington Carver, then work in small groups to design, write and illustrate a booklet about his accomplishments.

Students research George Washington Carver. In this science lesson, students discuss George Washington Carver's contribution to science. Students explain how peanut butter is produced.

Students use the Internet to examine the life of George Washington Carver. They participate in online activities and explore potatoes and peanuts.

Learners study life and accomplishments of George Washington Carver. In this historical figures lesson, students explore primary sources available from the Library of Congress regarding the accomplishments of Carver. 

Students learn and research the life of George Washington Carver.  In this historical figures instructional activity, students read a book on George Washington Carver, discuss his character and the challenges he faced in becoming a...

Artist, teacher, horticulturalist. George Washington Carver is the subject of a short overview of this remarkable man who advocated, among other ideas, self-sufficiency through farming.

In this comprehension skills instructional activity, students read the book The Life of George Washington Carver and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, making inferences, and drawing...

Students discuss the character traits of George Washington Carver. In this George Washington Carver activity, students read the books or segments of A Picture Book of George Washington Carver, Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy, The Night the...

This is a standard multiple-choice assessment on the life and ideas of George Washington Carver. It includes 20 questions on topics covering information about his birth and education, major career moves, teaching principles, ethics, etc.

Students explore Presidents of the U.S. by viewing images of George Washington. In this historical leaders lesson plan, students view a PowerPoint slide-show which contains images of Lincoln, Washington and other great U.S. Presidents....

Students locate information about the life and research of African American botanist George Washington Carver. They identify how Carver's knowledge of botany contributed to improvement of farming practices and introduction of new...

In this George Washington Carver learning exercise, students cut out the vocabulary words which focus on his life, and place them in alphabetical order. Students use the ten words in a sentence and staple them together to create a book.

Students discover the importance of a President by researching George Washington.  In this biographical instructional activity, students read a biography about the first President of the U.S. and examine photographs of the man.  Students...

First graders are introduced to the accomplishments of scientist and inventor George Washington Carver. They get to experience a variety of products created from peanuts and make a collage of the way we use peanuts today.

Peanuts inspire this lesson about George Washington Carver, called The Peanut Wizard in the included informational text. Class members read about peanuts and George Washington Carver and create a timeline of his life. In addition, pupils...

Students research the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. They conduct Internet research, complete a worksheet, create a three-slide multimedia presentation, and make homemade peanut butter.

Students investigate the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. They conduct Internet research, participate in making peanut butter, write a descriptive paragraph using all five senses, and create a graph for the different peanuts...

In this word search worksheet, students find ten words related to George Washington Carver. Teachers can change this worksheet on this worksheet builder to customize it to their own teaching objectives.

Students investigate the history of the peanut. In this social studies lesson, students read the book A Pocket Full of Goobers and examine the a peanut. Students discuss the peanut's characteristics and take notes on an article about...

Students practice making predictions and inferences. In this critical thinking lesson, students view photographs of our nation's leaders, make inferences of who they were, and predict what contributions made them important to our nation.