Teach your class how chocolate is made with our paper model!
Chocolate is a very popular food eaten around the world. Cocoa (or cacao) trees produce the cocoa beans that are the raw material used to make chocolate. They naturally grow in tropical jungles in south and central America. They have been used to make chocolate drinks for thousands of years!
Cocoa is now grown in many tropical places in the world as a crop, mostly in small farms. It has led to a huge global market for chocolate.
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Our model shows the surprisingly complex process for making chocolate. It involves many steps and machines and is an interesting example of flow production (continuous production). Cocoa in a chocolate bar travels thousands of miles before being eaten!
First, your students make their model using the colourful parts. Then they look at the steps involved in producing chocolate starting in the country where it is grown. It then looks at what happens in the factory where chocolate is produced.
Includes colourful classroom Powerpoint presentation!
The model can be used to teach the business, geographical, food science or scientific aspects of chocolate production.
The model covers cocoa farming, fermentation, roasting, winnowing, refining, conching, tempering, using moulds to make chocolates and selling the final product in supermarkets.
Takes just 30 minutes!
Dimensions (cocoa tree): 9cm x 9cm / 3.5in x 3.5in
Download includes: Colour and black-and-white templates, plus a classroom PowerPoint with background science and assembly instructions.
All you need: Paper, scissors and tape.
