Objectives

1.  Reads, interprets and creates a timeline identifying the order of events

2. Knows selected consequences of exploration

3. Knows ways human activity has affected the physical environment

Vocabulary

 B.C.,  A.D.,  origin, plantation,

Materials

 Student Timeline

 Student worksheet 

Continuous computer paper or construction paper, glue, pictures, scissors, ruler

Activities

1. Show and discuss examples of timelines both short and long term

2.  Demonstrate how a timeline can be a picture of time. Most social studies books contain various timelines that students can see

3. Explain to students the time break between B.C. and A.D.

Activities (cont.)

4.  Discuss how history help us understand the world in which we live and learning to do things better from producing food  to finding cures for disease. History also helps us see how past ideas have influenced or lives today.

5.  Students will embark on a quest for the history of chocolate.   Where it began,  how the fruit was used, inventions made, etc.

Activities (cont.)

6.  Give students  a worksheet timeline to record their findings.

7. Students will work in groups to create a timeline. This timeline will include major events in the history of chocolate and pictures that tell a story.

8. Each group will share their timeline with the class.

Homework

1. The students will  visit home learning website in Student worksheet.

2.  Complete puzzle on the history of chocolate. Print , complete and bring to class.

Assessment

1.  Individual Timeline worksheet

2.  Completed group timeline

3. Expository writing

Rubrics

Extension

Students will  write an expository writing to explain how exploration has spread the cacao plant and its uses throughout the world.