Chocolate Lesson Plan

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February 28, 2007

History
Long before the Hershey's bar and even before Columbus discovered the New World; the people of Mesoamerica enjoyed the cacao bean. Read more about it here:
http://www.helium.com/tm/186438/before-hersheys-before-columbus
Discussion Questions:
1. Where did the history of chocolate start?

2. __________ were the first to eat chocolate.

3. The sweet pulp of the cacao plant tasted like ___________ or melons.

4. The ___________ used the cacao bean as currency.

Explore

Learn how chocolate is made:
http://www.hersheys.com/discover/chocolate.asp

Geography
Take the Hershey’s Challenge: http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/02/hersheys-challenge.html
Journal

Imagine that you have just been named marketing directors for the Hershey Chocolate Company. The company has a new chocolate bar coming out, and you must decide how to make it, how it should be packaged, and what it should cost consumers.
Create a poem about chocolate. Be creative!! Write your poem inside this candy shape: http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/chocolatekiss2_m.pdf

Health
Compare two different candy wrappers. One of them needs to be a chocolate wrapper. Write down the serving size, calories, total fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, sugars, and protein for each wrapper. Compare your two wrappers and tell why one is better than the other.
Science
Try this chocolate lab:
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceExMeltingChocolateMO68.htm

Math Challenge
Don’t forget to take the math challenge to win prizes!
http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/02/math-challenge-feb-28.html

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