George Washington Carver Educational Posters, Books, Video, Links for Learning

	• EDUCATIONAL POSTERS Celebrate Black History
	Great Black Americans - George Washington Carver Great Black Americans - George Washington Carver Poster • more Great Black Americans posters
	George Washington Carver, Technology's Past, Wall Poster George Washington Carver Poster Text: His epitaph reads “He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.” Geroge Washington Carver, born a slave, achieved an international reputation and became America’s first biotechnologist. Poor health prevented him from performing manual labor, so he read and developed an interest in biology. While teaching at Tuskegee Institute, he found ways to transform the South’s depleted soil into rich, fertile soil. Tobacco and cotton, then the South’s staple crops, stole nutrients from the soil. Travelling by horse-drawn wagon, Carver instructed farmers to rotate their crops and plant peanuts to improve the soil’s quality. The new crop had limited markets, but within a week, Carver devised and developed dozens of uses for the peanut. His research is most responsible for the South’s economic survival. • more George Washington Carver posters
	Great Black Innovators - George Washington Carver Poster Great Black Innovators - George Washington Carver Poster b. c.1865; Missouri d. 1-5-1943 • more Great Black Innovators posters
	George Washington Carver, National Archive George Washington Carver, National Archive
		14 Leaders Art Print available at- AllPosters.com Art.com • who is in this poster? Mary McLeod Bethune George Washington Carver W. E. B. duBois Frederick Douglass Martin Luther King Thurgood Marshall Elijah Muhammad Adam Clayton Powell Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Booker T. Washington Malcolm X
		The Man I AM Poster available at- barewalls.com AllPosters.com Art.com • who is in this poster? Frederick Douglass Martin Luther King Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson George Washington Carver Malcolm X
	Peanut plant, Photographic Print A neighbor clasps a peanut plant to his chest. • more botany posters
	Cellular Plant & Animal Anatomy Chart One side of Cellular Plant & Animal Anatomy Chart depicts the inner structure of a plant cell and organelles, the other is a generalized animal cell with organelles. • anatomy posters
	Tuskegee Institute Art Print Tuskegee Institute • Alabama posters
	Grow a Peanut Bush Your students can grow their own peanut plants hydroponically with this all-in-one kit. Choose from the 10 or 30 plant packages. Both kits include peanut seeds, growing cups and lids, growing medium, saucers, instructions and teacher's guide with 8 easy experiments.

“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.”
George Washington Carver,
b. c.1865; Missouri
d. 1-5-1943

George Washington Carver was born on the Moses and Susan Carver farm near Diamond Grove in southwest Missouri. The exact date of birth is disputed, but generally recognized as circa 1864.

When George was an infant he and his mother Mary were kidnapped by bushwhackers. The Carver family managed to find George and ransomed him for a racehorse but his mother was never seen again. It is believed George’s father was a slave from a neighboring farm who was killed in an accident shortly after George was born. The Carver family raised George and his brother with their own children and he remembered them as kind.

George was a frail child and worked in the house rather than the field. The house work allowed him time to wander the woods and become interested in plants. He also had to teach himself to read and write because there were no schools for black children.

He left the Carver farm when he was ten years old so he could work where there were schools that he could attend. George was very good at art and music and he began attending Simpson College in Iowa to study those subjects. One of his teachers saw how good he was at botany and convinced him to transfer to Iowa Agricultural College (later to become Iowa State Univ.) where he earned a BS and a MS degrees. He also became the first African American faculty member there.

In 1896 Booker T. Washington invited Carver to Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama as an instructor and he was on the faculty there until his death.

His work developed 325 products from peanuts, 108 applications for sweet potatoes, and 75 products from pecans, including a substitute for rubber and more that 500 dyes and pigments.

George Washington Carver died Jan 5 1943; his birthplace was declared a National Monument in 1953 and a postage stamp was issued to commerate his accomplishments in 1948.

Read more about George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver: In His Own Words by George Washington Carver - selection of Carver’s writing reveal the human side of this famous black scientist, as well as the forces that shaped his creative genius.

The Story of George Washington Carver by Eva Moore ages 9-12

A Personal Tour of Tuskegee Institute (How It Was (Minneapolis, Minn.) by Bettye Stroud

and Botany...

Botany in a Day by Thomas J Elpel - Most plant books cover only one or two hundred species, this book includes more than 100 plant familes and over 700 genera, applicable to many thousand species!

Life and Times of the Peanut by Charles Mucicci - a fascinating picture book exploring one of America's most favorite snack foods.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

• George Washington Carver National Monument
• George Washington Carver, Inventors Hall of Fame
• George Washington Carver, ThinkQuest Site
• Legacy of George Washington Carver, Iowa State Univ
• George Washington Carver Coloring & Activity Book, USDA
• George Washington Carver, Wikipedia
• Virginia-Carolina Peanuts Lesson Plans- K-2 & 3-5
• more- Free poster resources list at The Creative Process