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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students consider the concept that much can be learned from the natural world by observation. They observe the incubation and hatching of chicken eggs in the classroom and discuss the needs of living things. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students assist in taking the meat off of cooked chicken bones. They try to assemble the chicken skeleton as best as possible, and use the meat to make chicken soup, and make mobiles from the bones. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explain the importance of carefully observing and caring for eggs and chickens in the classroom. Full Review »
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- 1st - 6th
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Students use the Internet to discover informatoin about chickens. They examine their diet, behavior and life cycle. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the mummification process used by the early Egyptians to preserve the bodies of their dead. Chickens are mummified, a sarcophagus designed and decorated with hieroglyphic designs in this lesson. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students observe baby chicks hatching from eggs in an incubator. They discuss the hatching process and the early development of baby chicks. They measure the temperature, collect data, and record it on a graph. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students practice their reading comprehension skills by reading about chickens. They state the characteristics of chickens and examine how growing up on a farm and being in the wild is different for the chickens. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students apply problem solving strategies to work with a real life situation in which they need to determine the area. They determine the area of chicken runs that are rectangular in shape when give a partial perimeter. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine the cover of the book, CHICKEN LICKEN and make predictions about what will happen in the story. They read the book understanding that is a cautionary tale. They read the story again focusing on the repeated refrains. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students discuss whether they believe the chicken or the egg came first. To determine the answer, they hatch eggs in a corner of their classroom. Using library books, they research the idea of animals hatching eggs. They also examine other animals that lay eggs and how it develops. Full Review »

