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Grade:
Grade 3
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by:
T T
Lesson Length:
30 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags:
Peanut, nutrition
Lesson Description:
The goal of this story is to...
Why do elephants like peanuts?
Because marshmallows get stuck in their trunks!
Elephants and humans eat tons of peanuts every year. They're packed with nutrition, taste great, and have many practical uses besides snack food--they can be turned into everything from shoe polish to shampoo, from ice cream to shaving cream!
Where were the first peanuts grown?
In the ground, of course!
Peanuts grow in a seed pod; that means they're really legumes, not nuts at all. They develop from small stemlike parts of the peanut plant called pegs, which grow down into the dirt at the base of the plant. Sixty-five days later, you can pull up the whole plant for an in-the-shell snack!
Did you eat all the peanuts ?
I didn't touch one.
But there's only one left!
That's the one I didn't touch!
A scientist named George Washington Carver was one of the first to see the great value in peanuts. He taught southern farmers that the peanuts--which had been planted in America even in ancient times, before the arrival of Europeans--would renew and refresh their exhausted soil, which was worn out from producing cotton for generations.
He found more than 300 other uses for peanuts, including being used in the making of soap and even shoe polish. The shells could be used to make plastic and linoleum. It turned out this little fellow is really pretty valuable. After all, we're not just talking peanuts!
Peanut-Buffer Balls
Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup honey
1 1/2 cups powdered milk
Coconut
Directions:
1. Mix peanut butter, honey, and powdered milk.
2. Form the mixture into little balls and roll them in the coconut.3 |
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