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PBS

Pbs Kids: Peg + Cat: Games: Chicken Coop

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Put the chickens in the chicken coop as you count from 1 to 100.
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Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Chickens

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site gives an in-depth description of a chicken, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
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Agriculture in the Classroom

National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum: From Chicken Little to Chicken Big

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will identify different breeds of chickens, examine physical characteristics, and determine the stages of a chicken's life cycle.
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Other

United Poultry Concerns: Hatching Good Lessons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of lessons on how to teach elementary students about chickens without actually hatching them in the classroom, which is not the best for the animals.
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EL Education

El Education: Chickenology: The Art and Science of Keeping Chickens

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This manual was written by a group of middle school and high school students in the Maplewood Richmond Heights school district. The students, known as the "Chickenologists", care for the district's flock of chickens. This comprehensive...
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.
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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Eggs and Hen's Diet: Can You Get Bigger Eggs for Peanuts?

For Students 6th - 8th
The goal of this project is to determine whether feeding chickens a dietary supplement of peanuts will result in larger and heavier eggs. If peanuts do increase egg size, a secondary goal will be to determine the optimal amount of peanut...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Ganda

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: "To Help the World to See": An Eliot Elisofon Retrospective

For Students 9th - 10th
This site chronicles the life of Eliot Elisofon, famed photojournalist for Life Magazine. There is a timeline of his life, images from his lifetime of work and even a chicken recipe that sounds great.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Examining the Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will examine sheep or chicken hearts to learn about heart structure and the flow of blood through the heart.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Habitats: Prairie

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn what prairies are, about the plants and wildlife that live there, and about the environmental efforts being made to restore them.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Which Embryo Is Human?

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists can use the research they gather from studying embryos of dogs, lizards, fish, and chickens to better understand human embryos. How is this possible? You'll find out with this Exploratorium resource.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Bend a Bone With Vinegar

For Students 4th - 8th
Use this experiment to show how vinegar reacts with the calcium in a chicken bone.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Brooding and Growing Chicks

For Students 9th - 10th
Raising chickens can be a challenging process and this thorough site provides a broad range of ideas to do this successfully. Topics range from preparing the brooder house to caring for growing birds.
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Other

National Shingles Foundation: Shingles & Phn: Your Questions Answered

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides general information about shingles, how it is caused, and how it is treated.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Meningitis

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about a highly contagious disease that affects the brain. You will find out who can get meningitis, and how it is treated.
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Other

Mdc: Endangered Species in Missouri Q and A

For Students 3rd - 8th
This questions and answer site of the rare and endangered species of Missouri features plants and animals and provides specific features including photos, information on habitat, cause of decline, and the like.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Andling Eggs

For Students 9th - 10th
Directions for candling eggs including the how and why of the egg candling process.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: The Heart of the Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A good quick look at the comparative anatomy of the heart of a typical bird and the human heart. Gives some of the facts behind the differences.
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Other

Rx Med: Herpes Zoster

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, learn what shingles is and how it is caused. Included is information on how to treat the symptoms associated with this disease.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Sula

For Students 9th - 10th
The second of Toni Morrison's novels, Sula tells the story of the friendship between two African-American women. This site looks in detail at this friendship as it examines plot, character and themes found in the novel.

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