New York Science Grade 6

Unit 3: Biodiversity

Peanut Inventions

Project Type: Model
Explore peanut inventions. Research 3-5 of the 325 products that were invented from peanuts. Design your own creative use for peanuts, write directions, and build a prototype for a class peanut 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:
Visit these sites, or any others you find, and research peanuts.

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

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