Chocolate: Riches From the Rainforest

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Chocolate:
Riches from the Rainforest
by Robert Burleigh

How is a tiny insect responsible for the chocolate candy you love? Does chocolate grow on trees? When did people start eating chocolate candy? How is it made? Who mixed chocolate with blood to make a drink? These and a thousand other answers are found in Chocolate, Riches from the Rainforest by Robert Burleigh. Brilliant pictures and diagrams highlight the fascinating text that will guarantee you can't go 24 more hours without your chocolate fix!

Money talks! Chocolate sings!

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The 14 activity pages for Chocolate, Riches from the Rainforest are now paired with the 9 activity pages in Kids Wings unit for Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the Hot Dog. Together they are perfect for lesson planning and handouts or projection on your SmartBoard in your study of our favorite foods. It is now available for instant download!

The Chocolate, Riches from the Rainforest, Activity Guide includes:
Chocolate Curiosity, Pages 1 and 2
Taking Notes, Making Outlines
Food for the Gods Crossword Puzzle
The Scientific Method 3-Song Round
Chocolate Experiments
Answers

A whole-class Tag Game to Test Your New Chocolate Expertise
Chocolate Tag is included in the Activity Guide: Each student gets a card with an answer and a question. The student with question Card #1 asks the question. The student with the answer to that question stands, reads the answer, and asks his question.
The answer to the last question is on Card #1.

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A special thank you to the talented Jalal Ali for allowing us to use his jovial
Funny Waltz as our background music

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