Chocolate Topic Enrichment Pack

Explore everyone’s favourite treat with this cross-curricular pack designed to delight and engage your Year 3/4 children! This Chocolate KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven engaging lessons spanning History, Science and Art, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Discover where chocolate originated, how it is made and how it has evolved over time
• Use their design skills to create chocolate-themed masterpieces
• Develop their knowledge of materials when investigating the properties of chocolate.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Chocolate topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

This pack is also part of a Topic Bundle - which also contains chocolate-themed Geography, DT and English schemes of work.

Aztec and Mayan Chocolate

In this Aztec and Mayan Chocolate KS2 lesson, your Year 3 or Year 4 class will find out about the origins of cocoa beans. They will discover when and where they were first used to create a chocolate drink called xocoatl, and compare and contrast how two different cultures, the Aztecs and the Maya, used them.

This Aztec and Mayan Chocolate KS2 planning pack comes with a lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole class teaching input, differentiated ideas and a range of printable teaching resources to support your class as they learn about how the Maya and the Aztecs first used chocolate.

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The Arrival of the Cocoa Bean in Europe

In this ready-to-teach lesson, your Year 3 or Year 4 children will find out how the cocoa bean arrived in Europe. They will discover how it was initially used to make a luxurious drink for the wealthy, but after a time, the first eating chocolate was produced.

The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input goes through some key information about how chocolate first came to Europe and how it quickly spread in popularity. During their independent learning time, your class can then write a diary entry about the arrival of chocolate from the point of view of a particular historical character.

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The History of Cadbury

Explore the history of Cadbury with your KS2 class in this ready-to-teach lesson! The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input goes through a timeline of events in the development of the world-famous Cadbury brand, right from it's humble beginnings in 1824 right through to the 21st century.

During their independent learning time, children can either order events in the history of Cadbury on a timeline, or think of a list of questions they would like to ask John Cadbury, ready for a hot-seating activity.

This lesson comes fully prepared and ready to deliver to your Year 3 or Year 4 class, with a lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of handy printable resources.

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Thermal Insulators

In this Thermal Insulators KS2 Science lesson, your Year 3/4 class will explore which materials work best at keeping hot chocolate hot!

Children will discuss what temperature is, how it is measured, and how objects cool down to the temperature of the environment they are in. They will be given a hot drink, and then challenged to conduct an investigation into how the liquid could be kept warmer for longer by wrapping different materials around the container it is in.

This Thermal Insulators KS2 planning pack comes complete with everything you need in order to successfully deliver this Science lesson, including a clear lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole class teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Melting Chocolate Experiment

In this fun and practical Science lesson, your KS2 children will carry out a melting chocolate experiment to find out which type of chocolate melts the fastest: dark, milk or white.

They will carry out an observational investigation to find out which type of chocolate melts the fastest, making sure that their experiment is a fair test. Alternatively, they can plan an experiment which compares the melting point of chocolate to other objects of their choice.

This Melting Chocolate Experiment lesson planning pack comes with all the resources you need to deliver this lesson, including a clear lesson plan with three-way differentiation plus an alternative activity, a slideshow for the teaching input and a range of printable teaching resources. All you need to do is provide the chocolate!

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The God of Chocolate

In this lesson, children will find out about the Aztec god of chocolate, Quetzalcoatl. They will see that he has been depicted in many different ways. Children are given the chance to create their own depiction of Quetzalcoatl by designing and making a mask. Alternatively, they can design and create their very own god of chocolate!

This God of Chocolate lesson contains all the planning and resources you need to deliver this lesson. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of handy printable teaching resources.

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Graphic Writing

Children will find out how lettering, or graphic writing, is very important when designing the name and packaging for products. They are given the opportunity to practise different graphic writing styles, and then they are challenged to use this knowledge to create their own lettering for a new chocolate bar.

This Graphic Writing KS2 lesson pack includes everything you need - an easy-to-follow plan, a set of engaging PDF slides for the teaching input, activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class in their independent learning.

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