Title of Book:
Author:
Publisher/Year:
ISBN - 13:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ronald Dahl
Penguin Group/1964
9-780142-410318
Grade Levels for Recommended Use: 3rd grade
TEKS: Knowledge and skills (13) Probability and statistics. The student solves problems
by collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting sets of data. The student is
expected to:
(A) collect, organize, record, and display data in pictographs and bar graphs where each
picture or cell might represent more than one piece of data;
(C) use data to describe events as more likely than, less likely than, or equally likely as.
Brief Summary:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about a boy named Charlie Bucket who won one of
the five golden tickets. The golden tickets were the key to touring a huge candy factory
that has never been seen by anyone and run by Mr. Willy Wonka and the OompaLoompas. Five children enter with their guest and strange and peculiar things keep
happening, until there is only Charlie left because he was honest and true.
Materials needed:
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book
 Brown bags
 Gold/silver Hershey Kisses
 Tally Chart
 Pencils
Suggested Activity:
1. Read up to chapter five from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
2. Discuss what a small chance Charlie had to win a golden ticket and how he
must have felt about having such a small chance.
3. Divide the class into groups of four. Give each group a paper bag with one
golden Hershey Kiss and three silver Hershey Kisses inside.
4. Explain the Tally chart.
5. Instruct each group to take turns drawing a kiss out of the bag without
looking. Record the color on their data chart, and then return the kiss to the
bag. Each person will draw five times (total of 20 draws).
Make sure the Kisses are returned to the bag after each draw and shake the
bag before the next draw.
6. After ten drawings, have the students stop and make predictions about the
number of silver Kisses, the number of gold Kisses, and the total number of
Kisses.
7. Instruct the groups to record their results in a bar graph or pictograph to be
shared with the class.
Have the students answer these questions about their experiment:
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What color Kiss were you more likely to draw?
What color Kiss were you least likely to draw?
How many gold or silver Kisses need to be added to make your
chances equal?
Graph your results in a pictograph, circle graph, or bar graph.
References: http://www.athens.edu/vinsobm/lesson_10.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4mzP2dLv0w&NR=1
Adapted by: Valerie Dykes (2011)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tally Chart
Prediction: How many
Silver?
Write down tally marks
for each draw
Experiment One
How many Gold?
Total in the bag?
Experiment Two
Experiment Three
Silver
Gold
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pictograph
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Experiment 3
Each Kiss = 2
Each Kiss = 2
Each Kiss = 2
Silver
Gold