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Next time you bite into a crunchy, gooey, or silky chocolate bar, know you’re tasting ingredients from around the world! Combining cocoa, vanilla, and sugar sounds like a simple recipe. But these “simple” ingredients have traveled across continents and oceans to satisfy your sweet tooth. You’ll hone geography skills by identifying countries that grow and export what’s needed to create your favorite treat, and understand how different countries can grow and export the same product, Grab a pencil to complete a sweet scavenger hunt through your local newspaper. Wrap up your chocolate adventure by writing about a never-before-seen chocolate treat of your own creation. Sweet dreams!
In this issue students will:
- read information text about the ingredients in a chocolate bar
- use map skills to locate countries
- understand how the ingredients for chocolate come from around the world
- discover the ancient history of chocolate
- find similarities and differences in pictures
- match shapes to identify the correct box of treats
- use the newspaper for a sweet scavenger hunt
- learn about chocolate consumer facts
- describe your newly invented chocolate bar
7 page PDF
