Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731, [in] Maryland, America.  When Benjamin Banneker was a boy he studied math and a pocket watch.

Benjamin helped people by [making] a clock and it told the weather [and] the seasons.  Benjamin helped by [making] the Almanac because it told them when to plant.  Benjamin studied a watch and their parts like the inside and the outside of the watch.  Benjamin knew stuff like multiplication, adding and subtracting and he knew more than his teacher.  Farming in the past was done by hand and not tractors or farm machines.

Benjamin Banneker’s inventions [are] important because we can tell time now!

Robert and Tanisha, 2^nd grade

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was born in Missouri [in] 1861.  He studied plants and farming.  George studied even more about plants.

He made peanuts [into] peanut butter, ice cream, paper, ink, shaving cream, and shampoo.  George found that he could make 118 different products from sweet potato.  These included soap, coffee, and glue.  That he made over 300 different products from peanuts.  George knew so much about plants that the people called him the plant doctor. 

[If] George Washington Carver did not make shampoo we could not wash our hair.

-Oranda and Abe, 2nd grade