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If you’re on the hunt for a few facts about George Washington Carver for your students, you are in the right place! Here are a few things we’ve discovered while building your new resources!

• Many people think that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter, but contrary to popular belief, peanut butter was around centuries before he was!
• He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War 
• Not only was Carver skilled in finding uses for peanuts, but he also found new ways to use Alabama clay and sweet potatoes.

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Integrate your social studies content with your reading comprehension instruction. Add rigor to the lesson with a constructed response graphic organizer and writing prompt. This resource also introduces citizenship traits to your young readers and writers.

This George Washington Carver activity teaches your students about a groundbreaking American scientist and inventor. This passage helps students explore the life and accomplishments of George Washington Carver. This activity includes a passage, R.A.C.E.S Constructed Response graphic organizer, and a final draft worksheet with an accompanying RACES writing checklist.

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Use the Download button to download the PDF version of this resource. 

To save paper, we suggest printing this 2-page worksheet double-sided. 

Turn this teaching resource into a sustainable activity by printing it on cardstock and slipping it into a dry-erase sleeve. Students can record their answers with a whiteboard marker and then erase and reuse them. 

Additionally, project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks. 

This resource was created by Nicole Ellis, a teacher in New York and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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