Chicken Life Cycle Extension

Each day our first round of chicks keep growing and thriving and it has been so fun to watch. Since we have one more round of chicks in an incubator and the whole world is at home wondering what to do, we thought it would be fun to bring you along for the ride. According to my calculations we are currently around day 16/17 of embryo development for these Americana and Olive Egger chicks to give you an idea.

If you are going to be following along on our egg hatch this coming week then I found a few mostly free resources for you to share with your kids to enrich the process.

Worksheets

Handwriting and Simple Coloring Sheets (free):
https://inallyoudo.net/chicken-life-cycle-coloring-pages-free/

Life Cycle Work Sheets:
https://www.livinglifeandlearning.com/chicken-life-cycle-worksheets-for-kids.html

Life Cycle of a Chicken Printable Poster Set (free):
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Science%202/Life%20cycle%20of%20a%20chicken%20poster%20set.pdf

Egg Letter Cards free Printable to see how may words your kids can come up with:
https://www.homeschoolingmykinetickids.com/2020/01/egg-moveable-alphabet-cards.html

Extension Packet if you really wanted more curriculum and don't mind paying for it:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Chickens-An-Animal-Study-2973284

Videos

K-1 Video of Development:
https://youtu.be/5mDNWJRxg-I

Super Cool Illustration of a chick developing:
https://youtu.be/PedajVADLGw

Jr High/High school age video of Embryo Development:
https://youtu.be/-Ah-gT0hTto

Comments

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