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Grade 3 - L9 A Tiny Seed Answer These Questions

Wangari was born in Kenya but her parents did not want her to go to school. She later studied in America and learned about plants and how they grow. When she returned to Kenya, she remembered the beautiful forests of her childhood. She taught women to plant trees from seeds and was rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for making her country green again through her reforestation efforts.

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Grade 3 - L9 A Tiny Seed Answer These Questions

Wangari was born in Kenya but her parents did not want her to go to school. She later studied in America and learned about plants and how they grow. When she returned to Kenya, she remembered the beautiful forests of her childhood. She taught women to plant trees from seeds and was rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for making her country green again through her reforestation efforts.

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Grade 3 - L9 A Tiny Seed

Answer these questions

1. Where was Wangari from?


A. Wangari was born in Kenya.
2. Why didn't Wangari parents want to send her to school?
A. Wangari parents did not want to send her to school because they wanted
her to stay at home and help them.
3. What did Wangari learn in America?
A. In America, Wangari learnt about plants and how they grow.
4. What did Wangari remember about her home country?
A. Wangari remembered how she had grown up playing games with her
brothers in the shade of the trees in the beautiful Kenyan forests.
5. How was Wangari rewarded for her work?
A. Wangari was rewarded for her work with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She
was the first African woman to receive it.

Answer in detail

1. How do you know that Wangari was very interested in learning and was
very good at studies?
A. As a child Wangari wanted to learn and could not wait to go to school.
When she did go to school, she learnt more and more with every book that
she read. She was clever and did so well at school that she was invited to
study in the United States of America. This tells us that she was very
interested in learning and was very good at studies.
2. How did Wangari make her country green again?
A. When Wangari returned to Kenya, she began to teach the women to plant
trees from seeds and to care for them and the land. For every seed that grew
into a plant and then a tree, the women were given money. As time passed,
the new trees grew into forests and Wangari made her country green again.

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