How chocolate is made interactive site

I found this great website that is interactive and discusses how to make chocolate. I like it because it would be fun for students, and it is very informative (I even learned something)! It starts you off with growing coco beans and takes you through the entire process up to making it into a chocolate bar (allowing you to cut down the bean, stir the chocolate etc...).  I am going to use this site as my introduction to my chocolate themed Valentines Day.  Let me know what you think of the site, or if you know of a better one.

Click here to go to the site.

Valentines Day Writing Prompt

So if you haven't figured out already my theme for Valentines Day is chocolate. I plan to write more posts about my activates,  so stayed tuned for that! This will be my morning writing prompt for Valentines Day. Hope you enjoy and if you have any chocolate themed activities comment below!

Good morning and happy Valentines Day! Today we are going to have a great day! Please complete the prompt in your journals :)

If I were a piece of Valentines Day candy I would be...... because....

Valentines Day Science Lab: Melting point of chocolates

I can across this on the Hershey website and thought it would be a fun activity for my class.

Materials:
- Milk chocolate chips
- White chocolate chips
- Dark chocolate chips
- Hot plate
- Bowls
- Stop watch

Objective: To see which type of chocolate will melt the fastest.

Have students make a prediction. You could make a graph as well.

Break class into groups.

Give each group one of each type of chocolate.

Have the groups put the chocolate in a bowl one at a time on the hot plate and time how long it takes to melt.

Have them record their observations.

Borax Crystal Heart

I want to make these with my class to hang in the window. This could be a great activity to use to teach about solutions.

Materials needed
-Borax
-Water
-Pipe cleaner
-Food coloring

How to:
1. Shape your pipe cleaner into the shape of a heart
2. Bring water to a boil and add your borax. You know you have enough borax when a little powder starts to collect at the bottom.
3. Add food coloring if you want
4. Place your heart into a container. Its best if it doesn't touch the sides or bottom of the container.  You can hang it in the container by suspending it with a pencil.
5. Pour the borax solution into the container, and make sure the heart is covered.

Battleship Valentines Style!!

With Valentine's Day approaching I've been thinking about different activities I could do in my class. I found this game and thought it would be perfect because we are talking about ordered pairs in math. Hope you enjoy!

The main idea of this game is to have students be able to identify ordered pairs. This is a variation of the classic board game Battleship. I made a simple game board by creating a table using word.

I would pair my students and give each a game board and 5 kisses (you could use any candy you would like I had kisses so that's what I used). Put a folder between the students so they cannot see each others board.

Have the students place their candy on their board.

Have the students take turns guessing ordered pairs. If they guess a square that has a piece of candy, they get the candy. The first student who gets all the candy from the others board wins!