| Introduction Do you love to eat chocolate? Chances are, if you are like millions of people around the world, chocolate is a key pleasure of everyday life. You eat chocolate in a variety of drinks, a multitude of desserts, countless candy bars, and many other forms. The typical Swiss eats more than 21 pounds of this candy each year. The average Belgian or Brit downs some 16 pounds annually. Here in the U.S., consumption weighs in at roughly 11.5 pounds per year!
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| Task Mr. Van Feisty, owner of the world famous chocolate factory, Dutch Delight Chocolates, has requested that you create a new candy bar, one that is more delicious than any you have tasted before. Working with the basic recipe for chocolate, you will experiment with possible variations until you come up with the best recipe to send to Mr. Van Feisty. But be on the lookout - your recipe is so great, someone is willing to commit a crime to get it!
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| Process Step i: Let's learn a little about chocolate so we can come up with the best recipe. Open the Answer Sheet and print this document. Visit the links below to find the answers to the questions.
to chocolate? Click here to find out!
Now take the chocolate challenge!
Do you know your chocolate? Click on the M&Ms and take the test. How many did you get right?
Step 2: Now that you are a chocolate connoisseur, let's make chocolate! Using a basic recipe of powdered cocoa, powdered sugar, and butter, discuss how much of each ingredient would be needed to make the most delicious chocolate. Would you need equal amounts of each? Discuss the possible variations. Discuss the criteria that might be used to evaluate a chocolate bar. consider criteria like sweetness, chocolate flavor, texture, and butter flavor. What are some other criteria? Can you think of some other ingredients you might add to enhance the flavor? After making and tasting some of these variations with your teacher, write down the best variation that you will send to Mr. Van Feisty. Step 3: Guess what? Mr. Van Feisty LOVES your recipe! He is confident it will be a best-seller! So now we have to help him design a package. Create an appropriate name for your chocolate bar. Using a graphic design software, design a logo for the new bar. What features should a logo have? Now we have to think about packaging. Consider the colors, visual effects, and marketing strategies that should be used to best sell your chocolate. Design a package wrapper for your product, incorporating the logo that you designed. Step 4: Next, print out your recipe, logo, and wrapper design. Put these in an envelope and turn in to your teacher for safekeeping. Your original recipe, like all chocolate manufacturers, will be kept secret. Why do you think this is? Your teacher will now send your recipe to Mr. Van Feisty for production!
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| Evaluation Click on the picture below to open the rubric to see how your graphic designs for your logo and wrapper will be graded. Print the rubric and complete a self-evaluation that you will turn in with a copy of your work.
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| Conclusion OH NO!!! Mr. Van Feisty was planning to begin manufacturing your chocolate bar next week, but something terrible happened before he could even make the first bar. Read the newspaper article that your teacher will give you to find out the details of this crime! Now, Mr. Van Feisty has asked that you turn in your chef's aprons in exchange for detective badges to help solve the case. Using the materials and information given to you by your teacher, use your logic and problem solving skills and find the thief. Then you can begin to earn millions from the production of your chocolate bar!
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| Teacher The following interdisciplinary objectives will be covered through the activities in this unit (some of these come from the actual webquest; others from the below referenced book): * to evaluate a product based on set criteria * to use technology to create a logo and wrapper for a new product * to differentiate between valid and invalid assumptions * to make valid assumptions * to identify basic fingerprint patterns * to analyze and match fingerprints * to identify false premises * to write conclusions and generalizations * to use deductive reasoning to solve matrix puzzles * to make inferences * to follow written directions
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| Credits This Webquest was designed by Teresa Zimmer, Gifted Enrichment/Technology Applications teacher at Carlisle Park Middle School in Guntersville, Alabama. It is correlated with the book The Great Chocolate Caper, by Mary Ann Carr, published by Dandy Lion Publications. The book is a mystery for children to solve using deductive thinking skills as they complete a variety of logic problems. Each problem provides an important clue in the mystery. Using these clues, the student detectives eliminate the suspects, one by one, until only the culprit remains and the mystery is solved. Resources used for this webquest include: www.bbc.uk/science/hottopics/chocolate www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/c/crosssection/namethatbar.html www.mentorplace.org/SweetScience.htm www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050209/Feature1.asp
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