Chocolate

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Chocolate A Literary morsel by Elisa Blythe
Cornman
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Happy Chocolate Day!

• 3rd week of March is American Chocolate Week.
• July 7th is Chocolate Day
• July 28th National Milk Chocolate Day
• September 13th International Chocolate Day
• October 28th National Chocolate Day
• December 28th 29th National Chocolate Day

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Delicious Facts

• The chocolate we eat comes from one rather
  special plantthe cacao tree
• The cacao tree wont begin to bear fruit until it
  is at least three to five years old.

• A cacao pod (the fruit) contains about 30-50
  almond-sized seedsenough to make about seven
  milk chocolate candy bars!

http//www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/kids_facts.ht
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Health Benefits
-3 grams of protein -15 of the Daily Value of
riboflavin  -9 of the Daily Value for calcium 
-7 of the Daily Value for iron

• A 1.5-ounce milk chocolate bar contains the
  recommended daily values of the following
  vitamins and minerals

http//www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/eat_healthfac
ts2.html
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For the love of chocolate
The smell of chocolate may actually relax you by
increasing theta waves in the brain.2
Chocolate contains flavonoids and antioxidants.1

• http//www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/eat_health2a.
  html
• 2. http//www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/eat_health
  factsa.html

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More Yummy Facts

• The average American eats 10-12 pounds (4.5 kg)
  of chocolate a year
• (The average Swiss eats 21 pounds a year)
• Children are more likely to prefer chocolate when
  they reach 10-11 years old than when they are
  younger
• Chocolate is America's favorite flavor, according
  to recent surveys with a little over 50 of
  adults preferring chocolate to other flavors

http//www.familyresource.com/lifestyles/cooking/i
nteresting-chocolate-statistics
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A Yummy Unit
Why study Chocolate? Chocolate is an
over-arching theme that can be used to connect
all of the necessary subject areas and all ages.
Students love chocolate and in turn, will love
learning about it and using it to learn.
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Where can chocolate take you?
Reading read fiction and non-fiction chocolate
stories Writing write new stories write
advertisement campaigns Art design new
wrappers illustrate stories Geography map out
where chocolate comes from map the trade routes

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Math measure and weigh graph and
manipulateHistory learn the history of
chocolateSocial studies learn the importance of
chocolate or the cacao tree to the cultures that
export chocolateScience learn the cacao trees
cycle of lifelearn how chocolate is
madecreate concoctions
More Learning Links
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Chocolaty Good Reads

• The following are just a few of the numerous
  books dedicated to chocolate and our love for it
  in all of its forms.

• wickerchickens.com/category/kiddos

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The Chocolate Touch

• By Patrick Skene Catling, 1952
• Grades 3-7
• John Midas exchanges a magical coin for a magical
  skill everything he touches turns into
  chocolate, but is the skill a gift or a curse?

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Touch-N-Feel

• Read about King Midas and the Golden Touch.
• Using Kidspiration, create a Venn diagram
  comparing and contrasting King Midas with John
  Midas in The Chocolate Touch.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• By Roald Dahl, 1964
• Grades 4-7
• The quintessential childrens classic about
  chocolate and character.
• After finding a Golden Ticket, Charlie and
  Grandpa Joe join some eccentric characters on a
  VIP tour of Willie Wonkas closely guarded and
  delightfully strange factory, and learn about
  morality in the process.

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Wonky Activities
Complete one Activity of your choice

• Create your own Willie Wonkas Chocolate Factory
  Tour Boat.
• Write a new Oompa-Loompa song
• Create a new candy and/or wrapper

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Mary Marony and the Chocolate Surprise

• By Suzy Kline, 1995
• Grades 2-4
• 2nd grader, Mary Malone wants to stop the
  classroom bully from winning one of the prizes
  that their teacher has hidden inside five candy
  bars.

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The Surprise inside
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• Take two different candy wrappers. One of them
  needs to be a chocolate wrapper. Tape them in
  your journals. Write down the
• Calories -serving size -total fat
  -Cholesterol
• Sodium -Sugars -total
  carbohydrates
• protein
• for each wrapper. Compare your two wrappers and
  tell
• me why one is better than the other. 2
• www.bradkent.com/wrappers/
• http//www.csustan.edu/advstd/edtech/4730/kara/cho
  colate.html

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The Triple Chocolate Brownie Genius

• By Deborah Sherman, 2007
• Grades 4-7
• 13 year old Michael turns into a super genius
  after eating an entire pan of his moms brownies
  and his dads computer chip that had accidentally
  been cooked into them.

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Brain Food Bionic Brownies

• Go to http//kidsactivities.suite101.com/article.c
  fm/brain_foods_for_kids
• Make a booklet of the brain food that they
  suggest (you may draw the pictures or cut them
  out of old magazines).

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Chocolate Fever

• By Robert Kimmel Smith, 1972
• Grades 2-6
• Sick of Chocolate?
• Henry Green breaks out into chocolate pox and has
  to escape, but he finds worse things than doctors
  when he hitch-hikes a hijacked delivery truck.

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Feverish Fun

• What is it?
• Chop up various candy bars
• Without tasting, students must decide which candy
  bar is which

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The Kids Book of Chocolate

• Richard Ammon, 1987
• Grades 3-5
• A non-fiction book containing almost everything
  anyone wanted to know about chocolate.

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The Chocolate Cycle

• Visit http//www.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/
• Click on the Manufacturing Chocolate from Seed to
  Sweet link to experience how chocolate is made.

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Chocolate by Hershey a story about Milton S
Hershey

• Betty Burford, 1995
• Grades 3-6
• The story about Milton S. Hershey contains more
  than just chocolate it is about goals and
  passions, friendship and family, and delicious
  candies.

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Hooray for Hershey

• Create a timeline of important events in Milton
  Hersheys life.
• Go on a video tour at
• http//www.hersheys.com/discover/
• tour_video.asp
• to see the process that they use to make a
  chocolate bar.

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Mercedes and the chocolate pilot a true story
of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped
from the sky.

• By Margot Theis Raven, 2002
• Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
• Grades 3-5
• This picture book conveys the true story of
  Operation Little Vittles and the humanitarian
  pilot who risked his life for the happiness of
  others.

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Chocolate Support

• Return the favor to our U.S. military overseas
• Write a letter to a US Soldier thanking him/her
  for everything he/she does.
• Come up with a list of 10-15 things that you
  would like to receive in a care package, if you
  were a soldier away from home.
• As a class/group adopt a troop, and send the
  letters and care package.

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The Last Chocolate Cookie

• Jamie Rix, 1997
• Illustrated by Arthur Robins
• Grades PK-1
• When told to politely offer the last chocolate
  cookie to everyone else, Maurice goes overboard
  and into space to do as he is told.

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Last Cookie Ever

• If you had to choose, what kind of cookie would
  be the last you ever ate?
• As a class, graph the answers.

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Oh, Ducky! A Chocolate Calamity

• By David Slonim, 2003
• Grades 1-4
• When Johnnys rubber duck falls into the pipes of
  the chocolate machine, his boss discovers a
  delicious new treat.

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Pipe worksbut no Ducks!
Milk chocolate and dark chocolate

• Think of a Chocolate creature that you could
  sell. Make a magazine advertisement for it.
• Have fun creating your own pipe works on
  Chocolate Pipe Madness at http//www.wonka.com/g
  ames/CHOCOLATEPIPES.asp

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Suggested Non-fiction books without reviews

• Jones, Carol. Chocolate. Philadelphia Chelsea
  House, 2002. (grades 4-8)
• Markle, Sandra. Chocolate a sweet history. New
  York Grosset Dunlap, 2005. (grades k-3)

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More

• Nelson, Robin. From cocoa bean to chocolate.
  Minneapolis Lerner Publications, 2003. (grades
  K-2)
• Snyder, Inez. Beans to chocolate. New York
  Childrens Press, 2003. (grades PK-2).

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Non-Fiction Books

• Pair up with a fiction book for comparison.
• Teach information skills how to use a table of
  contents, glossary, and index.

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Childrens Bibliography

• Fiction
• Catling, Patrick Skene. The chocolate touch.
  Illustrated by Margot Apple. New York Yearling,
  1952. Booklist November 1987, gr. 3-7.
• Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the chocolate factory.
  Illustrated by Quentin Blake. New York Knopf,
  1964. School Library Journal August 1987, gr.
  4-7.
• Kline, Suzy. Mary Marony and the chocolate
  surprise. Illustrated by Blanche Sims. New York
  G.P. Putnams Sons, 1995. School Library Journal
  December 1995, gr. 2-4.
• Sherman, Deborah. The triple chocolate brownie
  genius. Brighton, Mass. Fitzhenry Whiteside,
  2007. School Library Journal January 2008, gr.
  4-7.

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Childrens Bibliography Continued

• Smith, Robert Kimmel. Chocolate fever.
  Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. New York G. P.
  Putnams Sons, 1972. School Library Journal March
  1997, gr. 2-6
• Non-Fiction
• Ammon, Richard. The kids book of chocolate. New
  York Atheneum, 1987. School Library Journal
  April 1988, gr. 3-5.
• Burford, Betty. Chocolate by Hershey a story
  about Milton S Hershey. Illustrated by Loren
  Chantland. Minneapolis Carolrhoda Books, 1994.
  School Library Journal January 1995, gr. 3-6.

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Childrens Bibliography Continued

• Picture Books
• Raven, Margot Theis. Mercedes and the chocolate
  pilot a true story of the Berlin airlift and the
  candy that dropped from the sky. Illustrated by
  Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Chelsea, MI Sleeping
  Bear Press, 2002. School Library Journal August
  2002, gr. 3-5.
• Rix, Jamie. The last chocolate cookie.
  Illustrated by Arthur Robins. Cambridge, MA
  Candlewick Press, 1997. School Library Journal
  July 1998, gr. PK-1.
• Slonim, David. Oh, Ducky! A chocolate calamity.
  San Francisco Chronicle Books, 2003. School
  Library Journal May 1998, gr.1-4.

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Childrens Bibliography Continued

• Non-Reviewed Non-Fiction
• Jones, Carol. Chocolate. Philadelphia Chelsea
  House, 2002. (gr. 4-8)
• Markle, Sandra. Chocolate a sweet history. New
  York Grosset Dunlap, 2005. (gr. k-3)
• Nelson, Robin. From cocoa bean to chocolate.
  Minneapolis Lerner Publications, 2003. (gr. K-2)
• Snyder, Inez. Beans to chocolate. New York
  Childrens Press, 2003. (gr. PK-2).

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Professional Bibliography

• Bafile, Cara. A Dozen Candy-Coated Classroom
  Activities! Education World (10/15/2002).
  http//www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/less
  on142.shtml (accessed July 11-20, 2008).
• -Becky Settlemoir, a first-grade teacher at
  Fuller Elementary School in Little Rock,
  Arkansas, built a tremendous unit on chocolate
  for her classroom.
• Bowkers Books In Print. http//www.booksinprint.c
  om/bip/default.asp (accessed July 3-20, 2008).
• -This website is highly beneficial for all
  information regarding any book in print,
  including reviews and age ranges.
• Candy USA. http//www.candyusa.org/Classroom/calen
  dar.asp (accessed June 28, 2008).
• This website gives a calendar of special candy
  days.
• Chocolate. http//www.mce.k12tn.net/chocolate/inde
  x.htm (accessed July 11-20, 2008).
• -This website is a very helpful listing of
  chocolate themed websites, including book links
  and lesson plan ideas with chapter reviews and
  questions.

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Professional Bibliography Continued

• Chocolate The Exhibition. http//www.fieldmuseum.
  org/chocolate/ (accessed July 3-20, 2008).
• -An incredible website hosted by the Field
  Museum in Chicago and supported, in part, by the
  National Science Foundation it includes numerous
  information and interactives.
• Cocoa-Choco-Late. http//www.teachnet-lab.org/miam
  i/2005/linero2/index.htm (accessed July 11-20,
  2008).
• -Embark on a chocolate mission by reading a
  story that will make your mouth gooey, visiting
  chocolate factories around the world, and
  learning about delicious chocolate (what is it,
  where it grows, and who makes it).
• Curriculum Materials. http//www.mrsmcgowan.com/ch
  ocolate/currmaterials.htm (accessed July 11-20,
  2008).
• -This website is a very helpful listing of
  chocolate themed websites, including book and
  movie links.

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Professional Bibliography Continued

• Hollis, Elece. Brain Food for Kids. (August 20,
  2006). http//kidsactivities.suite101.com/article.
  cfm/brain_foods_for_kids (accessed July 18,
  2008).
• -This site provides information on the top ten
  healthy foods, including chocolate.
• Howe, James. Eaten Any Good Chocolate Books
  Lately? School Library Journal 33 (1987) 26-30.
• -The delicious article that gave inspiration for
  the topic.
• Holzschuher, Cynthia. Chocolate. Huntington
  Beach, CA Teacher Created Materials, 1997.
• -A teacher created unit about chocolate,
  including reproducible.
• Jerrie's Curriculum Hotlists Chocolate Theme
  Page. http//webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/chocolat
  e.htm (accessed July 11-20, 2008).
• -This website is a very helpful listing of
  chocolate themed websites.

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Professional Bibliography Continued

• Mrs. Los Chocolate Unit. http//www.csustan.edu/a
  dvstd/edtech/4730/kara/chocolate.html (accessed
  July 13, 2008).
• -This website is a cross-curricular unit based
  upon The Chocolate Touch.
• Reed, Janna. Chocolate. Huntington Beach, CA
  Teacher Created Materials, 1994.
• -A teacher created unit about chocolate,
  including reproducibles.
• Roald Dahl Fans.com. http//www.roalddahlfans.com/
  books/char.php (accessed July 13, 2008).
• -This website is a great site about the author
  of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, including
  the play and the many Oompa-Loompa poems/songs.

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Professional Bibliography Continued

• School Library Journal.
• -This journal was used for nearly every
  childrens book, to find positive reviews and
  grade ranges.
• Spadaccini, Jim. The sweet lure of chocolate.
  The Exploratorium, volume 23, number 1.
  http//www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_c
  hocolate/index.html (accessed July 15, 2008).
• -Explore the science and history of chocolate
  from its source in the Amazon rain forest to a
  video tour through a chocolate factory.
• White, Criss. Interesting Chocolate Statistics.
  http//www.familyresource.com/lifestyles/cooking/i
  nteresting-chocolate-statistics (July 18, 2008).
• -This site provides some interesting statistics
  about Americas favorite flavor.

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Bon Appétit
By Elisa Blythe Cornman LIS 5183, Child Lit July
21, 2008