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Topic:
- Peanut
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- Easier - A peanut
is a plant seed that grows in underground pods and
tastes like a nut. Peanuts are eaten roasted, and
made into peanut butter and cooking oil.
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- Harder - The
peanut is a legume plant species that is usually
cultivated for its fruit. The peanut plant is
unusual because it flowers above ground, then
develops its pods underground. Because of this,
peanuts are often called groundnuts. Other names
include arachides, goobers, mani, and pinders. This
strange legume yields shell-covered pods (fruits)
that contain one or more seeds. These tasty seeds
are also called peanuts.
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- The peanut is more closely related to peas than
to nuts. Peanuts are a favorite food, whether eaten
alone as a snack food or mixed into candy, cookies,
pies, and other bakery products. Peanut butter,
made by grinding the roasted seeds, accounts for
about one half the peanuts grown in the United
States. Worldwide however, peanuts are grown
chiefly to provide peanut oil. Farmers in Africa
and Asia grow about 90 percent of the world's
peanuts.
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- Peanut
Allergy
- http://www.allergicchild.com/peanut_allergy.htm
- Peanuts, a cheap source of dietary protein
predominantly ingested as peanut butter, have
indeed become one of the world's most allergenic
foods.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Peanut Allergy - What You Need To Know from
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society
http://www.oma.org/phealth/peanuts.htm
- 3) Peanut Allergy by P. Potter from Allergy
Society of South Africa
- http://www.allergysa.org/html/peanut.html
- 4) Peanut Allergy: Where Do We Stand? by J.
Weisnagel, M.D.
- http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm
- 5) Peanut Allergies from PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec97/peanut_12-19.html
- 6) Watch That Peanut Butter from Consumer
Affairs.Com
- http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/watch_that_peanut_butter.htm
- 7) Why Peanuts, Why Now? http://cgi.cadvision.com/~allergy/whypeanutswhynow.html
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- Peanut
Butter Lovers Club
- http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/
- This is the website dedicated to all those who
love peanut butter. It contains the history of
peanut butter, tells how it is made, has lots of
recipes plus nutrition and allergy information, and
lots more.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Jif http://www.jif.com/
- 3) Nutella (Alternative nut product) http://www.nutellausa.com/
- 4) Peanut Butter Information from
About.com
- http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa110397.htm?once=true&
- 5) Skippy Peanut Butter http://brands.bestfoods.com/skippy/
- 6) Story of Peanut Butter http://www.sanitarium.com.au/schoproj/sppeanut.htm
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- Peanut
Institute
- http://www.peanut-institute.org/
- The Peanut Institute is a nonprofit
organization which supports nutrition research and
develops educational programs.
- Other Peanut Organizations:
- 2) American Peanut Council http://www.peanutsusa.com/
- 3) Georgia Peanut Commission http://www.gapeanuts.com/
- 4) Virginia Carolina Peanuts http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/index.html
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- Story
of the Peanut from The Peanut
Roaster
- http://www.peanut.com/story.html
- This brief site tells about peanut history and
how they grow.
- Related Websites:
- 2) About Peanuts from National Peanut
Board
- http://www.nationalpeanutboard.com/about/index.html
- 3) Peanut Facts from American Peanut
Shellers Association
- http://www.peanut-shellers.org/Facts/facts.html
- 4) Peanut Perspective http://www.sansabapecan.com/peanuts/peanuts1.htm
- 5) Peanuts from About.com http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa041397.htm
- 6) Peanuts - The Facts from American Peanut
Council
- http://www.peanutsusa.com/facts/index.html
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- After visiting several of the websites
for peanuts, complete one or more of the
following activities. But before working
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First check
with parents and guardians to find if
anyone has severe allergies to peanuts or
peanut products!
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- Create Your Own 'Peanut
Gallery.' Represent your family, not
as nuts, but using peanuts. Starting with
peanuts and a wooden base, decorate each
peanut with paint and markers, fabric,
yarn, beads, craft eyes and other stuff to
create family members. Then write a story
about your family. Get ideas from the
Yukon
Families Peanut Gallery. Display your
family story with your finished 'Peanut
Gallery.'
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- Make Homemade Peanut Butter.
You can find directions for both creamy
and chunky styles at Homemade
Peanut Butter and Old
Fashioned Peanut Butter. Be sure to
have an adult help supervise the process.
Enjoy!
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- Prepare Peanut Foods. Here are
a few recipe sites to help you decide what
to make.
- 1) Cookbook from National Peanut
Board
- http://www.nationalpeanutboard.com/cookbook/index.html
- 2) Peanut Recipes from The Peanut
Roaster http://www.peanut.com/recipes.html
- 3) Recipe Categories from Good
Earth Peanut Company
- http://www.goodearthpeanuts.com/recipes.htm
- 4) Recipes from Peanut Company of
Australia
- http://www.pca.com.au/technical_nutritional_info/default.asp
- 5) Recipes from the Peanut Advisory
Board
- http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/Recipes/index_recipes.html
- 6) Recipes from Texas Peanut
Producers Board
- http://www.texaspeanutboard.com/recipe.html
- 7) Recipes from Virginia Carolina
Peanuts http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/cgi-bin/recipes.cgi
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- Complete A Peanut Experiment. A
tiny peanut contains stored chemical
energy. When you eat them, the stored
energy is converted by your bodies so you
can do work. You can also use the energy
in a peanut to heat a container of water.
Carefully follow the procedures found at
Peanut
Power. This project should be done
with the assistance and supervision of
your teacher.
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- Complete A Peanut WebQuest.
Follow or adapt the procedures found at
the following webQuest site:
- Peanut Butter and Jelly
Sandwiches
- http://www.evsc.k12.in.us/schoolzone/schools/EMPOWER/project/glenwood/daniels.htm
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- Write A Peanut Poem. Compose a
poem on the subject of peanuts or peanut
butter! You can find examples of poetry at
911
for Peanut Butter and Peanutty
Poetry.
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- Debate A Peanut Ban in Your
School. In recent years, the awareness
of the danger for some persons of peanut
allergies have led to the ban of all
peanut products in schools, the workplace,
or airlines. Use information found at the
allergy websites and these below to learn
more about the issues. Then debate a
proposed ban of peanut products in your
school.
- 1) Don't Ban Peanuts by C. Gorman from
Time
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981005/personal_time.your_heal32a.html
- 2) Feedback: Peanut Allergies and
School
- http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/feedback/article24.html
- 3) Growing Number of Schools Ban
Peanut Butter as Allergy Threat by A.
Hartocollis
- http://www.devvy.com/peanutbutter.html
- 4) Should Schools Ban Peanut Butter?
Point/CounterPoint from
Physician's Weekly
- http://www.physweekly.com/archive/99/04_12_99/pc.html
- 5) Why Dont We Just Ban Peanuts
(and Nuts) At School? http://cgi.cadvision.com/~allergy/whynotban.htm
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- Have A Peanut Day! Check for
peanut allergies before holding this
event. Celebrate with activities such as
'guess the amount or number of peanuts,'
'peanut hunt', and a 'peanut masquerade.'
Have some special foods. Sing the song,
Goober
Peas from the Civil War Music
Site.
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- Grow A Peanut. Get some help at
How
You Can Grow A Peanut Plant. Use a
database software to keep weekly data for
(1) peanut growth/plant height, (2) soil
temperature, (3) amount of moisture, and
(4) number of leaves.
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- Do Some Peanut Math. See if you
can solve the Peanuts
Problem (Grades 7-10). Check your
answer at Scoring
Guide for the Peanuts Problem. How did
you do on that one? Create some peanut
math problems of your own. Try them out
with your friends and classmates.
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- Pea or Nut? Compare and
contrast the peanut with its close
relatives in the legume family (peas). How
are they alike and how do they differ?
Then do the same with a specific type of
nut. Share your findings.
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- More Peanuts Websites
- Golden
Peanut Company
- http://www.goldenpeanut.com/
- This is the website of a leading handler,
processor and exporter of raw and processed peanuts
as well as of peanut related products
worldwide.
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- Peanut
Harvesting Equipment from Kelley
Manufacturing Co.
- http://www.kelleymfg.com/Peanut/Peanut.htm
- Here you can see and learn about digger shaker
inverters, row combines, and hydraulic dump carts
that are used for harvesting peanuts.
- Related Website:
- 2) Planting, Harvesting, and Curing Peanuts by
G.T. Roberson
- http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/Production_Guides/Peanuts/chptr7.html
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- Peanut
Farmer, The
- http://www.peanutfarmer.com/
- Published seven times per year, this magazine
gives the latest peanut production findings,
analyses of the domestic and global markets, and
significant happenings within the industry.
- Another Online Peanut Magazines:
- 2) Peanut Grower http://www.peanutgrower.com/home/main.html
- 3) Southeastern Peanut Farmer http://www.gapeanuts.com/southeasternpeanutfarmer.html
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- Planters
- http://www.planters.com/
- Learn about the nut company that was started
by an Italian immigrant named Amedeo Obici.
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- People Associated with Peanuts
- Jimmy
Carter
- http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/JC/JC_Life_Before_The_Presidency.
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- Here is the biography of 'Jimmy' Carter, whose
parents owned a peanut farm, warehouse, and a store
outside the small town of Plains, Georgia.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Jimmy Carter at DiscoverySchool
- http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/097440.html
- 3) Jimmy Carter from Grolier's New Book of
Knowledge
- http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/nbk/bios/39pcart.html
- 4) Jimmy Carter http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jc39.html
- 5) Plains, Georgia: Home of the 39th President
of the United States
- http://www.plainsgeorgia.com/
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- George
Washington Carver
- http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/23.html
- Agricultural chemist George Washington Carver
developed crop-rotation methods for conserving
nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new
uses for crops such as the peanut, which created
new markets for farmers, especially in the
South.
- Other G.W. Carver Websites:
- 2) Carver, George Washington http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_080.htm
- 3) George Washington Carver from
About.com
- http://inventors.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm
- 4) Legacy of George Washington Carver from
Iowa State University
- http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/gwc/bio.html
- 5) Peanut Man: The Story of George Washington
Carver
- http://www.graceproducts.com/carver/index.html
- 6) Peanut Products: As Discovered by Dr. George
Washington Carver
- http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~rlandrum/peanut.htm
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- Charles
M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
- http://www.charlesmschulzmuseum.org/
- Here is the museum website of the creator of
the 'Peanuts' cartoon strip.
- Other Websites for Charles M. Schulz and
Peanuts:
- 2) MetLife Gallary (Peanuts art) http://www.metlife.com/Gallery/index.html
- 3) Snoopy: The Official Peanuts Website
http://www.snoopy.com/
- 4) Sparky Rocks http://www.webbinteractive.com/sparkyrocks/
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- Websites For Teachers
- Learning
About Ratios: A Sandwich Study
(Grades 4-6) by S. Weinberg
- http://www.col-ed.org/cur/math/math17.txt
and
- http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/math/cecmath/cecmath017.html
- This lesson provides students with a concrete
introduction to the concept of ratios.
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- Peanut
Butter and Details (Grades 3-5) by E.
Braslawsky from Education World
- http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0043.shtml
- Each student will write the directions for
making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and ask
another student to follow the directions and make
the sandwich.
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- Peanut
Butter and Jelly Dance (Grade 2) by J.
Matas
- http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/peanutbutter.shtml
- Each student will find three other people, by
nonverbal body language, and will complete a peanut
butter & jelly sandwich, while the song is
playing.
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- Peanut
Butter and Jelly Geology from Nevada
Mining Association
- http://www.nevadamining.org/education/projects/proj_936169200.html
- In this project students make PB & J
sandwiches to learn how natural forces shape the
rock layers of the earth's crust.
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- Peanut
Butter and Jelly Programming (Grades 5-8)
by D. Sweeney
- http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2166.html
- This activity was designed to connect written
communication skills and sequential thinking with
writing computer programs.
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- Peanut
Butter Lovers Month
- http://www.clyde.k12.oh.us/jh/stbstult/peanut/
- This site shows how one class accumulated a
wealth of poems, stories, essays, news reports,
craft ideas, laughs, lessons and projects.
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- Where
Is My Peanut? by V. Vrooman (Grades 2-8)
from Academy Curricular Exchange
- http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci185.html
- As a result of this activity, the students will
observe a peanut, record facts about the peanut,
use measurement devices, draw pictures if
necessary, use the data to find the peanut after
hiding it, and have others use your data to locate
their peanut.
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- Who
is George Washington Carver, Anyway? from
Beacon Lesson Plans
- http://www.beaconlc.org/boa/display.asp?lessonid=959
- This lesson enables students to learn about an
African-American scientist who made significant
contributions in science since 1880.
- Related Lesson Plan:
- 2) George Washington Carver
- http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/famous/carver.html
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Annette
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Larry
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