Glencoe Earth Science

Unit 6: You and the Environment

Peanut Inventions

Project Type: Model
Have students research 3-5 of the 325 products that were invented from peanuts. Have them design their own creative use for peanuts (or other legume) and build a prototype with complete directions for their unique product to display at a class invention fair.

The creative use for peanuts should fall into one of the following categories:

• Food/Drink
• Medicine
• Cosmetic
• Household Product

The directions should include:

• What material/ingredients were used and in what quantities
• How the creative use for the peanuts works
• Explain the design and describe its function

The prototype needs to be:

• Durable and functions reliably
• Safe
• Environmentally friendly
• Marketable

Resources:
The following are site to help student learn about peanuts. Students may use these and or any other site they find.

Virgina-Carolina Peanuts
http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/every.html

Peanut product List
http://www.nps.gov/gwca/expanded/peanut.htm

Tuskegee University
http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1107158&nav=PBo8PKP0

Rubric:

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