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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view videos and websites and create finger puppets and hatchable eggs. For this dinosaur lesson, students view video clips and a website to introduce the dinosaurs. They do a finger puppet play and create hatchable dinosaur eggs.
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Eggs'ceptional Experiments

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students see evidence of chemical reaction and follow the scientific method to hypothesize, observe, and reach conclusions. They conduct a series of egg based experiments such as forming crystals and complete journal activities as a...
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The Thrush's Nest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A gorgeous collection of slides follows the changes within the nest of a thrush over a month's time. Beginning with a single egg on March 15th, frequent photographs looking down into the nest are displayed. Finally, on April 14th, the...
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The Scrambler: An Animation Example

For Students 3rd - 6th
Watch this fun animation about "The Scrambler." She is a determined scrambled egg maker.
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Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Are you looking for a instructional activity on eggs for your young farmers? This one could be for you! Learners discover where eggs come from. They see the whole process of an egg coming from a hen, and ending up on their breakfast...
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Let Me Out! Dino Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct research about animals that lay eggs such as reptiles and birds. After identifying characteristics of reptiles and discussing the connection to dinosaurs, they create a three-dimensional paper mache dinosaur egg with a...
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About Chickens

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Here's a cute and informative four-page packet of worksheets about chickens for your young agriculturists. They get to write words that have to do with chickens, perform cut-and-paste activities, and discover some fun facts about...
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The Birds of a Feather Flock Together

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify all parts of an egg, and explore their importance to the life cycle of a chicken. Learners compare all sorts of birds and place them in categories based on what they look like. This five-day lesson effectively...
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Chickens: Our Fascinating Feathered Friends

For Students 1st - 3rd
Don't be too chicken for this activity! Fifteen questions about chickens help your young farmers learn about poultry and farms. There are lots of interesting sentences that they can complete, such as the fact that chickens like to roost...
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Cycles of Life

For Teachers K
Students explore the metamorphosis of an insect as it changes from an egg to pupa to an adult. the process of change is observed, recorded, and transformed into a life cycle picture.
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Reproduction in Poultry

For Teachers 9th
Twenty-seven slides describe the main methods and organs involved with the poultry reproductive process. There are also details about illnesses and other factors that may affect offspring.
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Butterfly Metamorphosis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Click on this video and you'll get to see the life cycle of a butterfly. Each of the four stages are shown in real-time; as a butterfly lays its eggs, caterpillars emerge from the eggs. The caterpillar cocoons itself and then changes...
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Eggs-ceptional Art

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils use white construction paper and cut out a large oval shape. They transform the plalin white oval shape into a colored-egg decoration, decorating it with any design they want to create.
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Poultry and Eggs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Egg-cellent! A series of lessons on eggs awaits your class. They study everything from how eggs are formed in a chicken's body to how well they float, how to determine if they are raw or cooked, the strength and construction of the...
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Egg Words Crossword Puzzle

For Students 5th - 7th
This crossword puzzle is all about eggs! Learners use the given clues to fill in the squares in the puzzle. Since this is an online interactive resource, immediate feedback is available; although it only tells you whether you are wrong...
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Stator limbatus Study, Part 1

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment identifying beetle emergence and exit holes in seeds, count them, look for beetle eggs with a magnifier and count how many beetle eggs they find. They then graph on a data sheet the findings from their research.
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Egg Structure Project

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the physical structure of an egg and the functions of the seven parts. They create a diagram and discuss each part of the egg while looking for the information, Complete lesson materials are found at a website listed...
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Hatching Chickens

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars 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.
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An Egg is Quiet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover information about animal eggs by reading the book, An Egg is Quiet.  For this animal science lesson, students research different animals to find out what their eggs look like.  Students use a provided chart to guide...
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Incredible Geometric Eggs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create something out of a paper mache egg. In this creative geometry instructional activity, students convert a paper mache egg into something geometric that can stand without support. They are also expected to write a short...
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Cleaning an Oil Spill

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use oil, feathers, eggs, rubber bands, and more to create a simulated oil spill and then clean it up. For this oil spill lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss what their cleaning process is like and how the oceans are effected...
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Egg Math

For Students 5th - 8th
In this egg math worksheet, students click on the links to find out information about eggs and then complete math word problems with that information. Students complete 15 problems.
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How Do You Like Your Eggs?

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct a poll about how people like their eggs. In this graphing lesson, 1st graders collect data about how they like their eggs. Students use a picture of themselves to place under the type of egg they like. Students then...
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Hatching Chickens

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe chicken eggs incubate and hatch. In this animal observation lesson, students watch a video and read a book about eggs and chicks. They incubate eggs and observe them hatching. Learning by observing and exploring is...