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Animals: Chickens
Students use the Internet to discover information about chickens. They examine their diet, behavior and life cycle.
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Hatching Chickens
Students discover how chickens are hatched and cared for. In this hands on lesson students get to watch baby chicks be hatched. They explore the chicks needs and how long they take to hatch.
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Hatching Chickens
Students observe caring for eggs and chickens. In this hatching instructional activity students brainstorm what they know about chickens and carefully watch what happens.
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Life Comes in Cycles
Kids are fascinated by chickens and their eggs. Here is a learning exercise has young learners take a look at the four stages in a chicken's life cycle. They have four cycles to organize: egg, chick, young bird, and adult. They have to...
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Mystery Eggs
Students investigate the properties of plastic eggs filled with solids, liquids, and gases and use these observations to hypothesize whether a chicken egg is hard-boiled or raw.
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Transportation Systems: Two Liter Boat Activity
Young scholars design and build full-size boats made out of two-liter plastic bottles, chicken wire, and plywood. Then they race the boats, with the boat's designers "manning the hull", in the school's swimming pool.
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Examining the Heart
Break hearts with this lesson plan: chicken or sheep hearts, that is! Your class examines the external and internal structure of the heart with a dissection activity. A handy anatomy resource provides the necessary materials for...
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Chicken
In this chicken coloring page worksheet, students study a line drawing of a large chicken. There are no directions; this appears to be a coloring page.
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Life Cycle of Animals: Chicken, Duck, Frog
For this animal life cycles worksheet, students complete a ten question true/false assessment pertaining to life cycles of the frog, duck, or chicken. Students draw the life cycle of each animal in a separate box.
BioEd Online
The Skeleton
Don't be chicken to try a lesson plan that compares the anatomy of birds to humans. Read the background information so you don't have to wing it when it comes to the anatomy of a chicken. Prepare cooked chicken bones by soaking them in a...
American Museum of Natural History
Buried Bones
Patience is the name of the game. Using Plaster of Paris and chicken bones, learners simulate an archeological dig site. They excavate the chicken bones over a period of several days using tools and a large amount of patience.
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Are You Aware?
Bring the five senses to life with a fun science experiment! Kindergartners and first graders read an explanation of the five senses, then identify which items Sophia can sense if she is blindfolded. A science explanation at the bottom...
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4-H Poultry Activity Page: Responsiblity
How many eggs does a chicken lay annually? A poultry project gets 4-H members experiencing the importance of responsibility and care of animals. They read about managing poultry and working with eggs, write a story about their flock,...
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Deep-Sea Ecosystems – A Tale of Deep Corals
Many have debated which came first, the chicken or the egg, but this lesson debates which came first, the hydrocarbons or the carbonate reef. After a discussion on deep-sea corals, scholars receive a set of questions to research and...
Serendip
Introduction to Osmosis
A chicken egg is a very large cell—perfect for investigating osmosis! Scholars conduct an experiment with vinegar and eggs that helps them understand the process of osmosis. They follow the activity with an in-depth look at osmosis...
American Museum of Natural History
Anatomy Adventure
Sometimes science is puzzling. Using an online animation, individuals manipulate skeletal bones of an ancient species to recreate its skeleton. Learners complete the skeletal puzzle and learn about the process of paleontology in person...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas: Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
Students read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of animals that come from eggs. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies,...
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Backbones - Chicken-Style
Students observe individual bones that comprise the neck portion of a chicken's backbone. After cleaning the bones of tissue, they examine the dried vertebrae and observe how they are adapted for support and protection.
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Parts of a Chicken
In this chicken anatomy worksheet, students color and label 11 major parts of a chicken. There is a word bank to assist students.
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Hatching Chickens
Students learn the importance of caring for eggs as they hatch chickens. For this egg hatching lesson, students observe what happens when eggs are hatched into chickens by completing a e-worksheet and watching a web based movie.
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Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
What a cute way to introduce life cycles through a PowerPoint! The pictures and basic stages of the lives of butterflies, frogs, and plants are shown with cartoon pictures. there is also a prompt for your pupils to consider other life...
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Growing Minds: Farm Animal Matching Game
Use this farm animal matching worksheet alongside the Growing Minds Farm Animals lesson; kids learn about different animals and the products they are needed for. This activity highlights cows, bees, geese, chickens, goats, sheep, and...
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Runoff with Chunky the Chicken
Students are introduced to the on-farm nutrient cycle, which explains feed to manure, to soil, and back to the feed. They are introduced to the generation of runoff during rainstorms, and the contents of runoff water are more than water...
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Science Egg Experiment
Students examine and hypothesize about hard cooked and raw eggs before experimenting to see which one cracks more easily when dropped in a bucket. They open both eggs and compare them using a Venn diagram. They design a presentation...