Our
Project
Before you start your candy bar report:
History of Chocolate Pre-Assessment
History of
Chocolate WebQuest
Graphic Organizer –
Inspiration Template
After you finish your candy bar report:
Chocolate 3-2-1 Form
History of Chocolate Assessment
Sweet
Chocolate Links
Exploratorium
Magazine – The Sweet Lure of Chocolate
A
great resource for information about chocolate.
Scroll down and click on “From Bean to Bar” to find out how they process
chocolate into candy bars!
Chicago’s
Field Museum – Virtual Chocolate Making…from seed to sweet!
An awesome on-line
activity from our hometown museum! Follow
the directions and find out how chocolate is harvested, processed, and made
into candy.
Chicago’s Field
Museum – Chocolate Fun Facts
Read these amazing
and fun facts! Make sure to scroll to
the bottom to continue reading facts about the history and different uses of
chocolate.
Watch a video from
the Hershey factory telling the story of how Hershey chocolate is made.
Navigate the
timeline to learn about important dates in the history of chocolate.
Locations around
the globe where chocolate is grown
View pictures of
the cross sections of different candy bars.
Can you identify them?
Chocolate
Activities
A great activity
for teaching fractions with candy bars.
Chocolate Activities
from the Field Museum 
(ELL
resource – in English & Spanish)
An
abundance of chocolate activities and worksheets.
Here are some of the highlights:
Chocolate and its Environment
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Lesson
1 – Chocolate and the Rainforest
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Lesson
2 – Cacao tree anatomy
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Lesson
4 – Cacao Web
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Lesson
5 – Great diagram of the cacao pod
Chocolate
and Culture
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Lesson
2 – recipe for Aztec chocolate (sequence activity)
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Lesson
5 – sequence of chocolate production (can be used with chocolate tour link)
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