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Illustrative Mathematics

Christina's Candies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...
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Mixed numbers and Improper Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
What do you get when you combine chocolate bars and math? The answer: A great lesson on improper fractions and mixed numbers! Learners discuss the differences between whole numbers and fractions, then use images of scored chocolate bars...
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Cookie Mining

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students simulate coal mining with chocolate chip cookies and toothpicks. They investigate the costs associated with mining coal.
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Catch My Party

Chalkboard Back to School Party

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Your young learners will be excited to join your class when you throw them a back-to-school party with these awesome printables! From the invitations and place cards all the way to chocolate bar wrappers and treat bag toppers, these...
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Let's Celebrate Kwanzaa!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learn more about Kwanzaa with a celebratory lesson. As learners analyze My First Kwanzaa Book by Debbi Chocolate, they compare and contrast the celebration to other holiday traditions they know about. Next, they prepare and...
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Physical Changes and States of Matter - Two

For Teachers 3rd
Here's a wonderful lesson on how substances change states. Groups of learners are given trays with a chocolate bar, a piece of paper, an ice cube, and a balloon. During the activity, the groups closely observe the changes that each...
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Education World

Edible Resource Maps!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars discuss resource maps and examine examples from library resources. Working in groups, they create edible resource maps by drawing examples, such as popcorn on the border of Iowa and Nebraska. Then they use cookies in the...
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From Graphic Organizer to Composition - Grade Six

For Teachers 6th
How does one use a graphic organizer to plan writing? Introduce your writers to different types of graphic organizers by dividing the class into groups and assigning each group a particular organizer. Then, as they research chocolate...
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Moo-Velous Butter!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate how temperature and motion (energy) create a chemical change that turns cream ( a liquid) into butter (a solid). They create a class pictograph of their favorite mils choices (white, chocolate, or strawberry)...
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Food Testing and Tasting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners list the attributes of chocolate as an unprocessed and processed substance. They conduct a taste test of various chocolate bars and give a rating for each attribute they previously listed. Students create a consumer review...
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Where in the World?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders locate cocoa growing regions of the world and the chocolate companies. They examine the climate conditions that are needed to grow cocoa. They compare Ghana with the United Kingdom.
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What's In It?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners discover the ingredients that make chocolate. They practice reading ratios and percentages. They also examine its value in relationship to its weight.
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Chef for a Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make chocolate chip cookies. In this cooking lesson, students follow a recipe by doing each step in sequence.
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How Old is that Cookie?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate adaptation.  In this cookie age activity, students examine changes and variations in chocolate chips in cookies in preparation for determining the age of trees using lines.  Students discuss how the age of...
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Wonka Wisdom

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory worksheet, students answer ten multiple choice comprehension questions about this book by Roald Dahl.
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils list ingredients, utenstils, and steps in basic chocolate chip recipe. They evaluate the correctness of each list using copy of recipe, measure all liquid and dry ingredients, read recipe and follow steps to make cookies.
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Graphing Candy-Coated Chocolates

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students place pieces of candy on their coordinate graphs as the teacher calls out the colors and coordinates embedded in the plan. The teacher circulates around the class to check each student's answers for accuracy.
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Valentine's Day Chocolates Mystery- Sums to 198 (D)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
You can find love anywhere, even in a math activity! Second graders solve 27 problems in which they add 2 digit numbers to 2 digit numbers with and without carrying. When they are finished, they use their answers to solve a...
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Chocolate Asphalt Cookies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make no-bake cookies to learn basic engineering principles, road construction and material science. They experience properties and changes in matter.
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Compare and Contrast: Hershey and Mars

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders compare and contrast information from stories.  In this similarities and differences lesson, 12th graders read about Milton Hershey and Forrest S. Mars to learn about the lives of the two men.  Students complete...
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Loco for Cocoa

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the history of cocoa. In this cocoa lesson, 3rd graders investigate how the cocoa bean has been traded from one country to another. Students create a timeline and map to track the history of the cocoa bean.
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Fair Trade: Chocolate Can Be Good For You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the process of chocolate production. They read stories from boys in Ghana and Brazil who work on cocoa plantations. They illustrate the principles of fair trade.
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Valentine's Day Chocolates Mystery: Sums to 198 (B)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Students add double digit numbers to other two digit numbers. Each answer over 97 stands for a chocolate candy in the box. Students solve the problems to determine the number of chocolates in the candy box.
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Valentine's Day Chocolates Mystery: Sums to 1998 (A)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This worksheet prompts students to add three digit to three digit numbers. They are challenged to find the number of chocolates in a candy box by counting the answers above 999.

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