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Here is my 12 year old sons latest lapbook. 

We started this study on chocolate by reading the book
The Story of Chocolate

Click here for more information on the book.
We also used The World Book Encyclopedia & Wikipedia

The Front Cover

On the front cover we printed out chocolate in different stages and glued them on.  We have:
cacao plant
cacao beans
raw cocoa
chocolate bar
Milk Chocolate
filled chocolates

Inside


On the inside we cut the fronts from 7 different chocolate candy bars. (Eating the candy bars was the favorite part of making this one!  LOL)  Then we folded card stock to make a flaps for each candy bar.  In the flaps my son wrote on the following topics:

The Origns of Chocolate
The Mayans saw monkeys eating cacao beans, they tried them.  They liked them, except for the seeds.  They noticed that the rotting seeds smelled good!  They found a way to make the smell a drink.  It was very bitter.  Then the Aztecs learned the secrect from the Mayans.  They had to get all their cacao beans from the Mayans though.  But it 1519 the English made...sweet chocol haa. (As the Mayans called it.)  It didn't turn solid until 1847. A chocolate maker in France, Holland Coenraad Van Houren, made a press that turned chocolate paste into cocoa butter and powder.  Using cocoa butter Francis Fry made the 1st chocolate bar!  Milk Chocolate was made by Daniel Peter with the help of baby food maker, Henry Nestle.  He was given a gold medal for it!  Since then chocolate has stayed pretty much the same.

How Chocolate Is Made
Cacao beans are sundried to make cocoa beans.  They are then roasted at 250 to 350 deegrees for 30 minutes to 2 hours.  After removing the shells (Which are sold as animal feed.) the inner part is crushed into chocolate liquor.  Add vanilla, sugar, butter and Violla...Chocolate!

Chocolate and Books
With it's popularity chocolate has appeared in many books.  In Harry Potter books chocolate is a cure for Dementor Exposure.  Other books are:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Chocolate War
Chocolate Fever...and more!

Willy Wonka - The Book and Movies
The book and movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory take place inside a magical chocolate factory.  The first movie both changed and added things from the book.  The second added, but changed very little.

Cacao and Cocoa
Chocolate comes from cocoa beans.  Cocoa beans come from the cacao tree. By drying the cacao beans cocoa beans are made.  Much like raisins and grapes.

Who Should Never Eat Chocolate?
The theobromine in chocolate can result in many conditions in animals such as dogs, parrots, horses and cats.  They include:  heart attacks, epileptic seizures, internal bleeding, & eventually death, if the animal does not throw up within 2 hours. 

If The Mayans Saw Chocolate Today!
They would hardly recognize it.  They would never had thought the "chocol haa" they once drank would become mixed with nuts, candy coated, mixed with milk and strangest of all...be a solid!

The Back

On the back of the lapbook we printed out some of our favorite quotes about chocolate!

And Above All…Think Chocolate!
-"Betty Crocker"

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy
and you don’t need an appointment.
-Anonymous

Any sane person loves chocolate.
-Writer Bob Greene

I never met a chocolate I didn't like.
Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Life is like a box of chocolates...
you never know what you're gonna get.
~ Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) in Forrest Gump

Money talks. Chocolate sings.

Eat a square meal a day - a box of chocolate.

I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.