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Susan and Marci
welcome you to this "yummy" project! Chocolate Stories is
a collaborative Internet project for K - 4 classes. It's an
opportunity for student work to be showcased on the
World Wide Web and for teachers to share some of their best
practices with colleagues.
Classes will read a "chocolate" book (see
our suggested booklist) as a springboard for a
response activity of their choice. After reading the story students
will engage in language arts, math, science or social studies
activities that will be showcased on a web site.
We strongly encourage students to use educational software in this
project such as Scholastic Keys™(kid-friendly
interface for Microsoft Office),
Kid Pix™,
Timeliner™,
Kidspiration™,
Inspiration™,
Graph Club™ or
others.
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Visit
our Curriculum Materials page and these web projects to see how teachers use software to enhance
learning:
Chocolatina
Fall Into Autumn
Frosty Readers
You may find some other writing ideas at:
Fall Is Here, We Love It!
My Town Is Important
Read A Winter Book - Write A Winter Poem
You may find some graphing ideas at:
Graph Goodies
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Read two
"chocolate" stories and compare & contrast in Venn Diagram.
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Take a
survey and graph your classmates' favorite chocolate candy bars.
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Write
poetry, stories, book reviews, character interviews, etc. with a
word processor.
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Create an
illustration with graphic software.
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Illustrate
the beginning, middle and end of your selected book with a
software product.
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Research
and learn about chocolate. Create a timeline showing how a
candy bar is created and made ready for sale. Create a graphic
organizer showing different locations where chocolate comes
from.
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Engage in
chocolate math activities in your classroom; write chocolate
word problems for other classes at your grade level to solve;
communicate via email.
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Create and
write an original chocolate recipe. Create your own candy bar
wrapper; give it an original name.
Project Timeline:
Materials need to be e-mailed to us by October 31, 2005 for
publication. Work will be posted by November 15, 2005 and will
remain online to be used as a resource.
Project Materials:
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Send us a
short narrative summary of your unit of study including title
and author of books selected. Please send your narrative in
an email. Do not send attached Word or webpage documents.
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Let us know
what educational software you used. This way, other people will
be able to replicate your project.
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We will accept a maximum of 3 graphics of student work per
class.
All images
must be jpg or gif files.
We will not be posting
whole class group photos.
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Power Point presentations are limited to 5 slides and may be no
larger than 500KB. Videos are limited to 1MB.
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If you publish your own webpage at another site, you still must
meet the project requirements (send narrative and images). A
link to your page will be included only if you identify and link
back to this project.
Learning
Standards: Chocolate Stories
activities support literacy, math,
science, social studies and technology standards.
Contact Information: Please send the following information to Susan and Marci at
chocolatestories2005@yahoo.com
Your name
E-mail address
School name, town, phone number
Your class web site url (not required)
Class grade level
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