For our chocolate project, we read Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith.  Before reading the end of the story, students brainstormed cures for chocolate fever.  During writers workshop, students wrote creative cures.  Afterwards, some students created illustrations for their cures using Microsoft Paint.  Mrs. McDowell published our cures in a Powerpoint presentation titled, How Would You Cure Chocolate Fever?

After finishing the story, we tried to catch chocolate fever by hosting a chocolate taste test!  Students tasted Kit Kats, Snickers, Twix, and M&M's.  Afterwards, we graphed our results by drawing pictures of our favorite chocolate and by creating a physical graph on the floor using the candy bar wrappers.  To publish our graph, we visited The Student's Classroom, a website created by the National Center for Educational Statistics. 

On the website, we were able to quickly create a bar graph and a pie chart to display the information we gathered. 
 

After we created the pie chart, we colored paper plates to replicate the computer generated graph.  It was a very yummy project!

 To learn more about our chocolate project, visit our chocolate page at Mrs. McDowell’s Classroom.