It is your job to create, design and market the latest cand

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Webquest for Chocolate

• By Ms. Durbin

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Components

• Illinois Learning Standards
• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Resources
• Evaluation
• Conclusion

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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.

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Introduction

• The chocolate we know of goes through several
  steps before it hits our stores 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 wasnt until 1674 that chocolate started to be
  eaten how we know it today.
• To learn more about chocolate Try This Trivia!

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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

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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.

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Process Contd

• 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.

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Process Contd

• 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.

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Resources

• http//www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/history.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate
• http//www.exploratorium.com/exploring/exploring_c
  hocolate/index.html

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Evaluation

• See attached rubric

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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.