The Peanut Wizard
3rd-5th Grade Science and Language Arts
Students read about George Washington Carver and outline the information.
Cotton Pickin': Before and After the Civil War
6th-8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts
Students examine the importance of cotton to the economy of the South before and after the Civil War.
African Americans have a rich and delicious food history that we know as soul food. Sweet potatoes, black-eyed peas, okra and some other traditional soul food ingredients were brought with slaves from Africa or were combined with foods native to the Americas and form the basis for some historically African-American dishes that we still know and enjoy.
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