This week T1's reading task was all about chocolate. Here was our first activity.
The chart below shows the two main groups of countries involved in making and using chocolate.
The consumers: The people who buy and eat the chocolate
The producers: The countries that grow the cocoa plants that chocolate is made from
Part 1: Google My Map
Create a new Google My Map. Use this introduction to help you.
Give your my map the title: Chocolate on the Map.
Write a brief description of what your map shows e.g This map shows the location of the top producers of cocoa and the top consumers of chocolate in the world.
On your google my map pin each of the above countries.
Use blue markers for consumers and red markers for producers.
Add a picture and a fact about each of the countries to your pin.
Part 2: Reflection
Now that you have marked all of your countries, take a look at your map and answer the following question.
What does this map show us about where cocoa is produced and where the product chocolate is eaten? The poorer countries grow the cocoa and the richer countries consume it. All the countries that grow cocoa are close to the equator
Why do you think this is? Give as many reasons as you can.
Area - Cocoa can only grow within 20 degrees north and south of the equator.
Money - People who grow cocoa only profit between $0.50 and $0.84 a day. Richer people will want the normal wage of about $20 an hour. This is why the poorer countries grow cocoa.
Which countries do you think benefit the most from the production of chocolate?
I think the countries that profit the most are the ones who use the cocoa to make chocolate or the ones who eat the chocolate. Both Switzerland and Ghana would profit.
Why do you think this is? Give as many reasons as you can.
As stated above I said the ones who consume the chocolate and the ones that make it.
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