Friday Favorite: A Chocolate Bar (How It’s Made)
October 3, 2008
This was our favorite read of the week. How It’s Made: A Chocolate Bar by Sarah Ridley has lots of photos and interesting tidbits. It follows the process from growing the cacao trees (cacao trees yield cocoa beans) in Africa to its very yummy end.
As usual, there’s lots of opportunity for learning here:
- geography: locating the countries where the beans are grown, processed and consumed
- science: how the beans grow; farming; tempering the chocolate; health benefits of chocolate
- social studies: life in Africa (and other countries); how farmers farm in other countries (instead of fancy machines, they use tools like plantain leaves!); definition of fair-trade and how it works
- history: discussions about the Maya people, Aztecs, Christopher Columbus and more
- economics: buying, selling, compensation, co-ops
- and more!
It looks like there are more titles in the How It’s Made series, so we’ll have to check ‘em out!
Did you read anything good this week?
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Hi, I'm Amy. I teach people how to blog, I collect, organize & share free homeschooling resources, I am was the pastor's wife, I'm co-raising 4 kiddos, and I have issues. Read more about me here or find out how to contact me here.
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
For fall reading we are enjoying The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis. Make a jack-o-lantern, bake/cook up some yummy pumpkin foods, have a fun time learning rhyme and let your little ones say the rhyming words as you read.
October 5th, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
I bet I could definitely get some good reading cooperation out of my crew if the subject was chocolate! (I’m raising ‘em right!)–
Enjoying looking through your blog–great stuff here for homeschooling–and the heart!
Blessings!