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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Egg Cells

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When a baby girl is born, her ovaries contain all of the eggs they will ever produce. But these eggs are not fully developed. They develop only after she starts...
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope From Egg to Chick

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in a science project of hatching chicks? This website is designed to help you study incubation and embryonic development of chicken eggs. Illustrations also show the parts of an egg and the stages of embryonic...
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Website
PBS

Nova: Eighteen Ways to Make a Baby

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to a NOVA broadcast of the same name, Eighteen Ways documents the world of assisted reproduction. Find information on in vitro fertilization, the challenges of infertility, human cloning, advances in micro-manipulation,...
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Handout
Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Baby Louie

For Students 9th - 10th
What do paleontologist's learn from a dinosaur fossil named "Baby Louie", a baby carnivorous dinosaur from an unknown species of Oviraptors? This site offers fossil photos, a taxonomy chart, and some theories as to what happened to Baby...
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope: The Journey Begins

For Students 3rd - 8th
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
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Other

Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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Website
PBS

Nova: How Is Sex Determined?

For Students 9th - 10th
The sex of an egg cell is set as soon as it is fertilized, but what happens to that cell and the cells it divides into to make a baby boy or a baby girl? In this interactive, see how gonads-which look identical in early-stage...
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Website
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: American Robin

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to learn about Robins and track their migration. Information about Robin characteristics, life cycle, and migration. Includes migration map and the opportunity to report your sightings.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Fertilization

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The sperm and egg don't look anything like a human baby. After they come together, they will develop into a human being. How does a single cell become a complex...
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: End of April

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A poem about a baby bird, emerging from its shell, is shared within the five, three-line stanzas.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Fertility Throughout Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This presentation compares & contrasts male and female fertility from pre-infancy through late adulthood.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Reptiles and Amphibians

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides basic information for the characteristics of reptiles and amphibian and life cycles. Videos show reptiles and amphibians that can cruise through the air, and an alligator mom...
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Interactive
Other

The Visible Embryo

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the development of an embryo. Beginning with fertilization and progressing through each stage in the first trimester and continuing every two weeks for the second and third trimesters. This site is meant for medical students and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Time to Fly!

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies and their migration patterns. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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eBook
Can Teach

Can Teach: Novel and Picture Book Ideas (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers K - 1st
Novels and picture books are great ways to teach across the curriculum. This site lists about 75 novels and picture books around which CanTeach has constructed lesson ideas and plans. All grade levels indicated.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Nile Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
The statuette depicts a Nile fish called a Bolti. The fish was symbolic of new life and regeneration because it shelters its eggs and babies in its mouth.

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