Life+Cycles+-+Chicken

Life Cycles - Chicken

1. Teach students about the life cycle of a chicken. 2. Introduce the incubator. Explain how it works and why it works in the way it does. 3. Compare the difference between a mother hen and a incubator in hatching an egg. 4. Discuss temperature, humidity, turning, and time table for hatching an egg. 5. Discuss how God has created the chicken and how the mother hen knows what to do. What spiritual implications does this have? 6. 3 days before hatching remove the egg turner. 7. Use a recording cam at [] to broadcast the eggs during the hatching time when the students are not at school. If possible link it to other classrooms, so they too can watch the egg hatching. 8. After the egg hatches, discuss and model care of the chick.

Other fun activities if time:

1. Class contest for naming the chick. 2. Write stories about the chick. 3. Compare and contrast chickens raised on commercial farms and organic free range chickens.