Teachers putting a face on Black History Month for young students
That's how you wealthiest captivate an audience of students.
That's really how you best bring Black History Month to vital spark.
Maybe you teach about those people with a laptop computer and elaborate "learning kits." Or maybe you teach it by cracking into operation a few bags of peanuts.
It's not just the faces who achieved greatness, who inspired and blessed our nation, who made the headlines and the narrative books. It's also faces who accomplished things almost quietly.
It might be one man who did magical things with peanuts. Or it might be a woman who invented something as simple-hearted as the ironing board.
At Rolling Hills Elementary, Renea Mason is going around the room in her second-grade merit, asking for all the uses of peanuts that George Washington Carver discovered.
Paper. Shampoo. Shaving cream. Soap. Ice cream.
It took a classroom caller to offer the most important: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
The class has been reading "A Weed Is A Pick," a biography about Carver.
