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Learn at Home
with PBS KIDS
Learning About
Black Leaders
Additional support provided by
Monroe E. and Suzette M.
Berkman Family Foundation at
the Community Foundation of
Tampa Bay
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Week of
February 1st
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It’s Learning About Black Leaders Week!
In this packet, there are printable activities and everyday learning ideas for
you and your child to choose from. As you complete each square, mark it off
to celebrate the learning.
Learning Spotlight: Learning About Black Leaders
Identifying specific contributions of people, past and present is important.
We learn to celebrate individuals and the part they play in our lives.
Show What You Know: George Washington Carver Biosketch
The last activity in this packet is a perfect way for children to learn about
George Washington Carver and his contributions.
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Garrett Morgan invented the
three-position traffic signal. Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s
Amazing Fact Make a traffic signal collage. Favorite Sport
Take a Closer Look George
• What is botany? Circle how you know. Washington
• What did George learn about planting Carver
different crops? Underline one example. Take care of the Earth.
George taught us
to care for plants.
They make the air we breathe.
They provide us with food.
Plants are so important!
• What is one way you can take better
care of the Earth?
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Make a saxophone from
George Washington Carver
Draw a portrait of the first
Join Xavier and friends for Based on the
book series
studied plants. He worked to
more stories of great people, improve the lives of African
just like you! American farmers in the South.
pbskidsforparents.org
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The southern part of the United States is sometimes called the South.
recyclable materials.
Used with permission. © 2020 XR 1 Productions Inc. Corporate Funding for Xavier Riddle is
provided by ABCmouse.com and Kiddie Academy®.
George Washington Carver Black President of the
Practice playing like jazz United States of America,
musician, Duke Ellington. Biosketch
Barack Obama.
Take a Closer Look
• Zora liked to tell stories, even when she
Zora Neale
was little. Underline what Zora used to Hurston
tell stories when she was a girl. Stories are best when
you share them with others!
• Zora grew up in the South. What part of
this reading tells us what the South is?
Zora was
a great storyteller.
We can learn a lot about
people and life back then by
reading Zora’s stories.
• What story would you like to share?
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Zora Neale Hurston was a writer.
Make a diorama type painting
Based on the
Join Xavier and friends for book series She grew up in the South. Many
more stories of great people,
just like you! of her stories take place there.
pbskidsforparents.org
Sponsored by:
PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS Logo are registered trademarks of Public Broadcasting Service.
Used with permission. © 2020 XR 1 Productions Inc. Corporate Funding for Xavier Riddle is
The southern part of the United States is sometimes called the South.
provided by ABCmouse.com and Kiddie Academy®.
from cardboard boxes.
Zora Neale Hurston Artist, Jacob Lawrence,
Biosketch created this art style. Celebrating Black Leaders
Grades 1-2
Find more games and activities at pbs.org/parents/learn-at-home
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Made available by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.Take a Closer Look
• Zora liked to tell stories, even when she
Zora Neale
was little. Underline what Zora used to Hurston
tell stories when she was a girl. Stories are best when
you share them with others!
• Zora grew up in the South. What part of
this reading tells us what the South is?
Zora was
a great storyteller.
We can learn a lot about
people and life back then by
reading Zora’s stories.
• What story would you like to share?
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Zora Neale Hurston was a writer.
Based on the
Join Xavier and friends for book series She grew up in the South. Many
more stories of great people,
just like you! of her stories take place there.
pbskidsforparents.org
Sponsored by:
PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS Logo are registered trademarks of Public Broadcasting Service.
Used with permission. © 2020 XR 1 Productions Inc. Corporate Funding for Xavier Riddle is
The southern part of the United States is sometimes called the South.
provided by ABCmouse.com and Kiddie Academy®.Making Up Stories Writing Stories
Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama in Over the years, Zora
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1891. She moved to Eatonville, Florida when moved a lot. She lived
she was 3. with different family
members and friends in
When Zora was little, she listened to her
the South. She met many
neighbors tell stories. She also made up her This is a photograph of
people. She wanted Zora Neale Hurston.
own. Zora used her own homemade dolls
to know how people were the same and
to tell stories. She gave them names like
how they were different. She shared their
Ms. Corn Shuck and Mr. Sweet Smell. In her
stories with others. She also wrote stories
stories, her dolls had many adventures!
about her life in the South.
Sharing Stories
Amazing Fact! Zora wrote poems, plays, and books.
She was one of the few African American
Young Zora made
women who was published at the time.
Photo by John Morgan.
dolls out of soap,
a spool of thread, Her stories have been printed and sold all
a doorknob, and over the world!
a cornhusk!
This is an example of a corn
husk doll.Take a Closer Look George
• What is botany ? Circle how you know. Washington
• What did George learn about planting Carver
different crops? Underline one example. Take care of the Earth.
George taught us
to care for plants.
They make the air we breathe.
They provide us with food.
Plants are so important!
• What is one way you can take better
care of the Earth?
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
George Washington Carver
Based on the
Join Xavier and friends for book series
studied plants. He worked to
more stories of great people, improve the lives of African
just like you! American farmers in the South.
pbskidsforparents.org
Sponsored by:
PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS Logo are registered trademarks of Public Broadcasting Service.
Used with permission. © 2020 XR 1 Productions Inc. Corporate Funding for Xavier Riddle is The southern part of the United States is sometimes called the South.
provided by ABCmouse.com and Kiddie Academy®.A Secret Garden decided to go to another college to learn
George Washington Carver was born in about plants, gardens, and farming.
Missouri in 1864. When he was young, he
liked to walk in the woods. He was curious
Helping Plants and People
about plants and flowers. He even had a George studied how
secret garden. He took care of the plants farmers could plant
and protected them from insects. He called different crops instead
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plants and flowers his “pets.” of the same crop over
and over. This made
The Science of Plants the soil healthier. Crops
George went to college to study art. One of could grow better.
He talked about not This is a photograph of George
his teachers saw how much he liked to draw Washington Carver when he
plants. She told him he should study botany. wasting acorns. He said was 42 years old. He is holding
a clump of soil.
Botany is the science of plants. George they could be used to
feed farm animals. He also told people
to dry, can, and preserve fruits and
Amazing Fact! vegetables. He wanted to help people. He
George Washington wanted African Americans to eat healthy
Carver came up with foods. He wanted to take care of the Earth.
Pollinator, GFDL
105 recipes for using
George was born more than 150 years
peanuts, including
peanut macaroni ago. His lessons are just as important
and cheese! today.
This is a photograph of a peanut plant.Learn at Home with PBS KIDS
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