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Webquest for Chocolate

Webquest for Chocolate. By: Ms. Durbin. Components. Illinois Learning Standards Introduction Task Process Resources Evaluation Conclusion. Illinois Learning Standards. 15.C.1a Describe how human, natural and capital resources are used to produce goods and services.

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Webquest for Chocolate

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  1. Webquest for Chocolate By: Ms. Durbin

  2. Components • Illinois Learning Standards • Introduction • Task • Process • Resources • Evaluation • Conclusion

  3. Illinois Learning Standards • 15.C.1a Describe how human, natural and capital resources are used to produce goods and services. • 17.C.1a Identify ways people depend on and interact with the physical environment (e.g., farming, fishing, hydroelectric power). • 16.C.1a (W) Identify how people and groups in the past made economic choices (e.g., crops to plant, products to make, products to trade) to survive and improve their lives. • 16.C.1b (W) Explain how trade among people brought an exchange of ideas, tech­nology and language. • 15.A.1a Identify advantages and disadvantages of different ways to distribute goods and services. • 15.C.1a Describe how human, natural and capital resources are used to produce goods and services.

  4. Introduction • The chocolate we know of goes through several steps before it hits our store’s shelves. • Back in “1500 BC-400 BC - The Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop.” • In 250-900 CE people would make an unsweetened chocolate drink that was only for the elite members of the Myan society. • It wasn’t until 1674 that chocolate started to be eaten how we know it today. • To learn more about chocolate Try This Trivia!

  5. Task • To help you understand a little more about chocolate you can take a tour of a chocolate factory! Click Here for Tour • Even though there is a lot of great history that is involved with chocolate, there are a lot of fun things to do with it as well (besides eating it), like games! Click Here for Games

  6. Process • You are now the advertising group for a famous chocolate company! It is your job to create, design and market the latest candy bar. • Once you have created this candy bar and decided on the ad campaign you and your group will give a 1 minute commercial to the class explaining why we should buy your candy bar.

  7. Process Cont’d • First you need to decide what ingredients will need to go into your candy bar. • Second come up with a name and design for the wrapper.

  8. Process Cont’d • Next create a poster, bulletin board or slide show telling the class about your candy bar. • Finally you will present everything you and your group has created to the class.

  9. Resources • http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/history.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate • http://www.exploratorium.com/exploring/exploring_chocolate/index.html

  10. Evaluation • See attached rubric

  11. Conclusion • By the end of this Webquest you will know some facts about the history of chocolate and also all the steps that it takes to successfully make a candy bar. • You will have presented your candy bar and all the parts of that project, including the poster, drawings and commercial.

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