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Cocoa Chain

Follow cocoa from a farm in Ghana through a port and a factory to a chocolate bar here; when drought hits the farms, students explain step by step, with prices and numbers, who is affected in each country and why.

Play style: Simulator
Module: Cocoa Chain: How trade links countries and spreads the effects of a drought
Grade: Grade 5 · Social Studies
Standards: D2.Eco.14.3-5 D2.Eco.15.3-5 D2.Geo.12.3-5 D4.2.3-5

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