Teaching Resources
Here are some chocolate themed teaching resources you may want to use in the classroom before or after your visit to support your students’ learning. If you have any feedback or questions about the teaching resources, please get in touch.
We hope to see you at The Chocolatarium.
Primary Schools
These resources are aimed at children aged 8 – 12.
Design your own Chocolate Bar
Get their entrepreneurial spirit going with the Design Your Own Chocolate Bar Lesson! Use the Ingredients Cards/List, Colour Words and Images and Chocolate Bar Wrapper Examples to spark their imagination and the Chocolate Bar Wrapper TEMPLATE to create their design.
For children coming on a class trip to The Chocolatarium, they make their bar and wrap it up in the packaging they’ve designed!
Downloads for Primary Schools
History of Chocolate Timeline
Use the key pieces of information to support and structure your pupils’ research into the history of chocolate using the History of Chocolate Timeline. This can be done either individually or divided into 3s for collaborative group work.
Packaging Literacy
Great for real-life literacy. Take a closer look at chocolate bar labelling. Use the Chocolate Wrapper Worksheet to take notes and help children better understand food labelling and make informed choices.
The Process of Chocolate Making
A great post-visit activity – label the Process of Chocolate- Making Diagram to check understanding of the process and consolidate learning.
Farm to Fork – The Cacao Trade
The Cacao Trade Journey Diagram from the cacao farmer to the chocolate eater! Fully-labelled or with some blanks to fill in.
Cocoa-growing Regions
Map of cacao-growing latitudes
Cocoa-growing Regions
English Language Schools
These resources are aimed at children and young people for whom English is not their first language.
Design your own Chocolate Bar EFL Lesson
Several hours of activities with language including talking about colour (vibrant, dull, bold), ingredients (ginger, mint, cinnamon) and making suggestions in the task-based design a chocolate bar activity.
Resources include Ingredients Matching Cards, Colour Adjectives and Images Matching Cards, Making Suggestions Functions and the Chocolate Bar Wrapper Template. Great for either task-based Young Learners or adults who would like a stronger vocabulary and communication focus. Highly motivating to know that they can actually make the bar they’ve designed when they come to the Chocolatarium!
Downloads for English Language Schools
Design your own Chocolate Bar EFL Lesson
The History of Chocolate EFL Lesson
Practise the past simple with a delicious topic and the History of Chocolate Timeline Pair Practice.
The History of Chocolate EFL Lesson
IELTS Task 1 – Passives and Process
Help your students prepare for IELTS in a fun way by describing the process of chocolate-making using the Chocolate-Making Process Diagram. When they come to see the process in action, they will already be experts and can hear the language in context.