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Where does chocolate come from? Learn all about Cacao Tree Geography while coloring and labeling a map. |
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For free printable maps, see here. |
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From the Guardian, The Dark Side of Chocolate is a multidisciplinary hyperlinked lesson plan in which kids view a video about chocolate making, identify chocolate-growing regions on a map, listen to some prize-winning chocolate rap, and invent a fair-trade chocolate bar. |
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining is a hands-on exercise on environmental destruction as kids “mine” chocolate chips from cookies using toothpicks as mining tools. The lesson plan includes background info on coal mining and suggestions for extension activities. |
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See Chocolate Recipes for Kids for a quick-and-easy chocolate chip cookie recipe. |
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From the American Chemical Society’s ChemMatters magazine, Chocolate: The New Health Food – Or Is It? is a terrific illustrated article on the science of chocolate for middle- and high-school-level students, illustrated with photos and great color diagrams. |
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Guilt-Free Chocolate is a hands-on science activity in which kids melt chocolate, use it to coat cookies, and perform a series of measurements and calculations relative to food processing and labeling. Included at the site is a fifteen-minute video on the history and science of chocolate from Aztec times to the present. For high-school-level students. |
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From Young Minds Inspired, The Story of Chocolate is a downloadable color-illustrated lesson unit on the history, cultivation, and consumption of chocolate. Included is a chef’s guide to the different types of chocolate and a recipe challenge. For high-school-level students. |
