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George Washington Carver study makes for a fun peanut unit study. Also, you love my Gardening Projects For Homeschool Easy Composting With the Amazing Dr. George Carver (Free Printable About Compost and my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies.

Besides, National Peanut Butter Day is January 24^th and I have some fun ideas to learn about peanuts and peanut butter.

We are celebrating it by making a batch of easy 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies and enjoying a mini peanut unit study.

Learn about the process, the people, and fun facts about the peanut while you enjoy peanutty treats.

Peanuts are versatile and used in much more than just peanut butter.

First, you’ll love some of these fun peanut facts.

For example, Jimmy Carter, our 39th president, came from humble roots in Plains, Georgia.

He took over his father’s peanut farm prior to becoming president.

Jimmy Carter sold peanuts on the streets at just 5 years old, peanuts are in his blood.

Too, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States was a peanut farmer and a botanist.

He is credited with the boost to the peanut’s popularity as he was the first American president to grow peanuts. He was famed for his other amazing garden treasures at Monticello.

More Peanut Facts

• There are four different types of peanuts – Runner, Valencia, Spanish and Virginia.
• It takes roughly 540 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
• There have been two peanut farmers to have been elected president of the USA – Thomas Jefferson  from Virginia and Jimmy Carter from Georgia,
• Peanuts are not actually “nuts” they are classified as legumes, related to beans.
• There are 6 different cities in the United States named Peanut:

1. Peanut, California
2. Lower Peanut- Pennsylvania
3. Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania
4. Peanut, Pennsylvania
5. Peanut, Tennessee
6. Peanut West Virginia

• “Goober” is a nickname for peanuts.
• The highest peanut producing states are: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. Do you live in one of these peanut rich states?
• It is believed that the peanut plant probably originated in Brazil or Peru.

Then, learn about the science of peanuts.

And I have some notebooking pages for you too.

A Pea or a Nut?

First, Argentina, Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Sudan are major peanut-growing countries.

However, the peanut is not really a nut such as a pecan or walnut but are the seeds of the peanut plant.

As the plant grows, it puts forth yellow flowers that pollinate themselves.

Additionally, the peanut is a legume—a member of the pea family.

And peanuts do not grow on trees, but they grow on low bushes.

They produce their fruit underground.

Next, learn about Dr. George Washington Carver.

About George Washington Carver

Carver was born in 1861 near Diamond Grove, Missouri and died January 5, 1943 in Tuskegee. Alabama.

Carver was the son of a slave owned by Moses Carver. He was separated from his mother at a young age. He taught himself using books and learned from his experiences.

During this time, he supported himself by various jobs, including hotel cook, laundry man, farm laborer, and other odd jobs.

And he was an American agricultural chemist. He experimented with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

One of the most well-known things he did was to help teach people of the South to care for their soil.

A lot of farmers grew cotton, and the dreaded cotton boll weevil would devastate their crop.

He suggested peanuts as a source of income in place of cotton. But also, because it enriched the soil.

Also, he spent most of his career teaching and conducting research at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Thereafter, in 1903 George Washington Carver had begun research into new uses for the peanut plant.

He eventually developed more than 300 products from it.

Look at this site List of Products made from the Peanut By Dr. George Washington Carver.

In addition, add some of these books to your study.

Hands-On Peanut and Peanut Butter Activities

Next, try a few hands-on activities to make the learning more fun and memorable.

• Gardening Projects For Homeschool Easy Composting With the Amazing Dr. George Carver.
• Learn How to Make Your Own Peanut Butter.
• How to Make Edible Peanut Butter Playdough.
• Use shelled peanuts as counters for simple addition and subtraction, or skip counting.
• Make this super cute George Washington Carver Paper Plate Peanut Craft.
• Grow your own peanuts with these Peanut Seeds.
• Make a winter nature craft: How to Make Easy DIY Bird Feeders.
• Have a peanut taste test. Try them in every form you can- in the shell, as peanut butter, honey roasted or other flavors, in cookies, peanut brittle, or peanut candies.

Too, here are some videos to add to your quick study.