Social Studies- Tour of the Northeast

One stop on our tour of the Northeast was visiting the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania, one of the largest chocolate factories in the world. We learned that the NE region was a place where many factories started for two reasons: water power and there were plenty of people to work in them.

Students got to participate as factory workers as cutters, placers and wrappers of candy. They got to think about how they might feel if they had to do that job for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. We also shared positives and negatives about if a machine could do the work as a candy wrapper.