2. Part 1: Do you like Chocolate?
Getting the audience’s attention PowerPoint slide 2.
Ask the audience to put their hand in the air if they have ever eaten a chocolate bar. Ask them to put their other hand in the air if they think chocolate is yummy. Comment on how many hands are in the air – practically everyone in the room loves chocolate.

3. Part 2: What do you know about Chocolate?
(Understanding where chocolate comes from) PowerPoint slides 3 – 10
We all love Chocolate but where does it come from? Ask the audience to put their hands up if they know the answer.

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Some of the younger pupils should suggest ‘the shops’, the older pupils usually know that it comes from cocoa trees. (If ‘the shops’ is not suggested, say that is where you thought it came from.)

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Tell the audience that chocolate actually comes from a tree. Does this mean a Chocolate Tree exists – i.e. a tree that grows chocolate? Fantastic!

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No, chocolate actually comes from a cocoa tree...

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...which produces cocoa pods, and in these are cocoa beans.

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Mix these cocoa beans with milk and sugar and you get chocolate!

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Suggest to the audience that this means we could all grow a cocoa tree in our back gardens and make lots and lots of lovely chocolate!

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Ask them to tell you why this is not possible: unfortunately, cocoa trees only grow in hotter climates, on continents such as Africa, and in countries within in such as Ghana.

11. Part 3: What else do we know about Chocolate?
Understanding the popularity of chocolate: PowerPoint Slides 11-14
Read out each of the statements in turn and ask the pupils to put up their hands if they think the statement is true. All the statements are true (be sure to tell the audience after each statement whether it is true or false – they forget them if you leave the answers to the end). Comment on the number of people who thought each statement was true i.e. if very little think statement 2 was true, note how chocolate is big business.

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True.

13. Slide 14:
True.
Comment on what conclusions we can draw from them i.e. chocolate is very popular, there seems to be a lot of money to be made in the Chocolate Industry. Suggest that we are now chocolate experts we can play a game of ‘Spot the Difference’....

14. Part 4: Who grew the Cocoa Trees used to make Chocolate?
Thinking about where our chocolate comes from: PowerPoint Slides
Ask the audience ‘What is the difference between these two bars of chocolate? ‘ and hold up two (identical) bars of chocolate – labelled ‘A’ and ‘B’.
Ask for two volunteers to come up and ‘spot the difference’. Ask them to comment on the size, shape, weight, colour, and finally taste. As no differences can be spotted, suggest thinking about who produced the chocolate, where did the cocoa beans came from to produce the two bars of chocolate?
Ask for two groups of four volunteers to come up. One group represents the Cocoa Farmers who grew the cocoa which went to make the Chocolate Bar ‘A’ (Group A of Cocoa Farmers), the other, Chocolate Bar ‘B’ (Group B of Cocoa Farmers).

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Tell each group you have a report which tells us how hard they are working to produce Cocoa Beans. Give each group an envelope with the report in and ask them to open it and hold the report. In both envelopes is the same sentence ‘Work Very Hard’. Show PowerPoint Slide 16 which depicts how Cocoa Farmers work hard to get the beans ready to sell to the Chocolate Companies – they have to pick the cocoa pods, take out the cocoa beans, dry the beans then pack the beans up to sell to the chocolate factories.
Tell both groups that they now have cocoa beans that they are ready to trade (explain what trade means- to buy and sell, to swap, to exchange). Now ask for two more volunteers to come up and give each of them the name of a company to hold – ‘Chocolate Company’ and ‘Fair Trade Chocolate Company’. Ask each of them to give a pay check (in an envelope) to one group for the cocoa beans they have grown, ask the group to open the envelope and hold up how much they have been paid. Group A gets a cheque for £10 from the Chocolate Company, Group B gets a cheque for £100 from the Fair Trade Chocolate Company. Comment on the difference and show PowerPoint Slide 16. Is it Fair that Group A worked just as hard as Group B but got paid very little? Is it Fair that Group B got paid the right amount of money for all their hard work?

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At this point, depending on the audience, you may also like to add and that Group B also gets to send their children to school, gets protective clothing for when they work, gets health care and also gets a bonus (social premium) for community projects. If you wish and to make the benefits more visual, you can hand Group B some books (to represent education), some bandages (to represent medical care), some gloves (to represent protective clothing), and a bonus cheque (the social premium).
Emphasise again how it was unfair it is that Group A got very little for the beans they traded, but how it was fair that Group B received enough money to live off along with all the things they need to live and survive – enough money for food, health care, education, good housing etc.
Ask the audience how can we tell from the chocolate bars we are buying that the farmers that produced the cocoa beans were treated fairly, like Group B were treated?

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The Fairtrade Mark. Explain what it stands for and ask the audience to look out for it at the supermarket.

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Explain that it is not only chocolate that you will see the Fairtrade Mark on.

19. What can we do?
It’s not just about buying Fairtrade Products: PowerPoint Slides 20-21
Refer back to Chocolate bars ‘A’ and ‘B’. Reinforce how they may seem the same, but if we see the Fairtrade Mark on one of them it means when we buy it we are having a really positive impact on the Cocoa Farmers who grew the Cocoa Beans to go into it. Our choice in what we buy has a direct impact on farmers across the world – we are very powerful individuals!
Also emphasise that buying Fairtrade products is not all you can do to help. You can become a Fairtrade School, learn about it in lessons, hold Fairtrade events, design posters etc, etc.