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How is chocolate made?

March 24, 2011 Ticia 8 Comments

When I learned the state cookie of Pennsylvania is chocolate, I knew what we had to do: learn: how is chocolate made.

I took the little kid activity from All About Chocolate from Reading A to Z.  I printed an extra copy of the book and cut out the pictures for the kids to glue onto the sheets in order.  The older kids answered the worksheet that did the same thing.

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073And that’s what the first 52 pictures on my camera looked like.  I’d watermark them, but I really doubt anyone is going to steal that.  I mean really.  FIFTY TWO pictures of Diego?  Okay, so as a kid I took a whole roll of my Cabbage Patch Kids, but at least I was posing them and trying to tell a story.

 

So, that’s what the first page looks like.  As you can tell, it’s fairly simple, especially since this one was numbered.  That’s what it looks like in the factory process of how chocolate is made.

 

Now, the farm to factory for how is chocolate made looks a bit different.

 

 

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Okay, so picture quality isn’t all that great, but that’s partially because I saved on ink by not printing it in the best quality.

If you print as much as I do you need to save on ink somewhere, and this is where I choose to do that.

So, that’s the last activity I have for Pennsylvania.

All in all, it was a great state study.  I’m learning more and more of how to structure this co-op, so it’s getting better and better each week.

reading and writing, STEM Pennsylvania

Comments

  1. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    March 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    You lost me at “healthy” and “delicious” – I just can't put those two words together! I'll have to come back, and read the rest of this post once I've recovered from the splitting headache from trying to wrap my mind around that concept 🙂

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  2. Debbie says

    March 24, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Love Leah's comment! I can't wrap my mind around healthy chocolate. Great stART project.

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  3. Raising a Happy Child says

    March 24, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    The first two comments are very funny. I think I am going to look for the book – chocolate is hugely popular with daughter 🙂

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  4. MaryAnne says

    March 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    I want to know how you MAKE delicious and healthy chocolate! Any chance your friend would share her recipe?

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  5. Wonder Mom says

    March 24, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    You mean, you don't understand WHY a person needs 52 pictures of Diego? If you don't understand it now, I guess you never will… ;0)

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  6. Christy says

    March 24, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    I love all of the comments! Ha! I would love some of that chocolate right now too. I have such a sweet tooth when I am pregnant. Today I bought a pint of Ben & Jerry's and hid it in the back of the freezer so that I can have it all to myself.

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  7. April says

    March 25, 2011 at 12:45 am

    Hey I actually heard that chocolate is good for your heart! I am looking forward to studying Pennsylvania! chocolate mmmm

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  8. Heather@Cultivated Lives says

    March 27, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    yum. Chocolate is my love language!!!!! I'm totally going to check out this book.

    I've been making sugar free chocolate shakes recently to curb the chocolate cravings w/out ingesting the extra sugar that my pregnant body just doesn't need right now. (almond milk, frozen banana's, 1 Tbs cocoa and optional date or two) I'd love to see your friends recipe too!!!!

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