A transition project in Geography for Year 6
LESSON TWO
This educational, not-for-profit resource (six lessons for Y6 on Chocolate) is produced
in association with
Give Geography its Place www.ggip.co.uk and
Buckinghamshire County Council www.bucksgfl.org.uk
Acknowledgements: see Teachers’ Notes section for full acknowledgements
Introduction
Timing
Objectives
Outcomes
Activities
This lesson involves looking at the chocolate journey from bean to bar
One hour
We Are Learning To:
Link chocolate to the real people growing cocoa in Ghana
Use photographs to find out what a place is like
Sequence a series of images chronologically
What I’m Looking For:
Extended writing or informative display work to show the chocolate
journey from bean to bar.
Starter (5 mins)
Give pairs of children a set of the 11 photo captions to read from 1B1
Ask them to read the caption and put them one under the other in the
order they think the captions go.
Main Activities (40 mins)
Children check the order of their captions. If internet is available
use the interactive photo sequence on the home page of the website
http://www.papapaa.org/ks2/choc_1b.htm
Show the images, discussing the extra facts as you go, and allow
students to alter the sequence of their captions if required. If no
internet is available, show correct sequence of images from the CD and
photopack (£8 inc. p/p from the website)
Where in the world is this? Find Ghana on atlases/globes
Discuss: What can they tell about the lives of people who live here?
What else do they want to know about? Divide the class into groups
of three or four and give each group one of the photos. Ask the
group to write down all the questions they can think of for their
photo. If there are people in the photo, what do you think they
might be saying or thinking? Give each person a speech bubble.
Each group then shows its photograph in the correct order and tells
the class what they think is happening there and questions they have
Distinguish between three stages:
1. In Ghana
2. The journey
3. In Europe
Follow-up with group or individual work as appropriate to the class
(eg. display work, extended descriptive writing, a flow chart)
Plenary: Big Facts Memory Game (15 mins)
Look at the changing sequence of “Big Facts” on the www.papapaa.org
Homepage or listed on “Additional Background” below. The sequence to
take 3 minutes to scroll around on the website. Let the students read
Extension
Resources
Key words
Additional
Background
the Big Facts twice around, then have a collective memory exercise in
groups. The children have the write down as many facts as they
remember. (teacher keeps the group responses to use as a starter the
following lesson)
Children can read the extended information for each photo using
sheets 1B2 or 1B3 and match the information to the photo captions.
Or look at the extra image bank on Conacado Cocoa-growing cooperative and list difference between this and Mim village.
KS2 resource sheets and full lesson plans from the PaPaaPaa website:
Section One – Chocolate: Bean to Bar
~ 1B Bean to Bar – Additional lesson ideas
~ Photos 1-14 Mim Village, Ghana
~ 1B1 – Photo captions
~ 1B2 – Photo descriptions (and 1B3 – descriptions, short version)
http://www.papapaa.org/ks2/choc_1b.htm
~ Photobank taken on a transect walk across a cocoa village in Ghana,
reproduced with the permission of © Dan Raven-Ellison
cocoa pod
cutlass
roasting
fermentation
weigh scales
winnowing
Equator
Kuapa Kokoo
cocoa butter
Ghana
Tema
cocoa liquor
harvest
banana/plantain leaves
conching
The “Big Facts”
 There are about two million cocoa farmers in Ghana
 Cocoa farmers grow much of their own food, but they need cash to
pay for many essentials such as school fees and doctor’s fees.
 Ghana: Average annual cocoa farmer’s income - £160
UK: Average annual pocket money - £166
 Small scale farmers produce an average of 5 sacks of cocoa per year
 Cocoa likes constantly high temperatures and a lot of rain
 Cocoa farmers typically receive only 7p from a £1 bar of chocolate
 Ghanaian farmers formed Kuapo Kokoo in 1993 with 2000 members.
Today there are more than 45,000 members in over 1000 villages
 Kuapo Kokoo means “good cocoa farmers” in the local language called
Twi
 Their motto of “PaPaPaa” which means “best of the best”
 Day Chocolate is the only chocolate company whose producers also
share in the ownership. Kuapo Kokoo own one third.
 Chocolate is not alone – there are more than 800 Fairtrade products
on sale from fruit to footballs
 Sales of Fairtrade products in the UK continue to rise each year
 Two-thirds of all pocket money in the UK is spent on sweets and
chocolate (Source British Council 2005)
Every year in the UK we eat the equivalent weight of 71,579 London
buses of chocolate. (That’s 500,000 tonnes!)
 We eat, on average, 16kg of chocolate a year, which means that we
spend about £1.20 on chocolate a week
 A typical milk chocolate bar is made of cocoa mass and butter, milk,
sugar and vegetable fat.
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