George Washington Carver Interactive Biography - Black History Month Science - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This George Washington Carver interactive biography turns the scientist who rebuilt Southern soil into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Carver (c. 1864-1943) from birth into slavery in Missouri through a long fight for an education, to the Tuskegee laboratory where he taught crop rotation to farmers who could not read and testified before Congress about the peanut. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the enslaved childhood in Missouri and the years of freedom that followed, the long search for a school and the degrees at Simpson College and Iowa State, the Tuskegee apex and the work with Southern farmers, the national fame and the Congressional testimony, and the final years and the national monument - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 43 events setting Carver's life beside Emancipation and Reconstruction, the founding of Tuskegee, the Atlanta Compromise, Plessy v. Ferguson and the Jim Crow South, the Great Depression and the New Deal farm programs - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from the Moses Carver farm at Diamond and Neosho through Fort Scott, Minneapolis and Ness County in Kansas, Simpson College and Iowa State, to Tuskegee, the Capitol, and Henry Ford's laboratory at Dearborn - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his enslavers turned guardians Moses and Susan Carver, Mariah Watkins who took him
Find it on: Gumroad, Kitchen Table Curriculum