Incubating and Hatching Eggs

South Jefferson Central School
Hatching Project
2008


Lesson #1 Introduction to Hatching/Incubating Resources: Handouts:
• Supplies/Equipment Book– Chicken & Egg K-2: What Kind of Heat/Shapes of Eggs/
Beautiful Bird Eggs/The Developing Embryo/What’s Inside
• How to Care - Egg Photo Story Book
• What Eggs We Have Dye Egg to show porosity (air pores) 3-5: Horton Hatches the Egg/Harry the Silky Chicken/Incubation/the Developing Embryo/What’s Inside
• Differences in Eggs
• How Embryo breathes

Lesson #2 • Parts of An Egg Book – Animals Hatch from Eggs K-2: Egg Laying Animals/Who Lays Eggs?/Which Animals Come From Eggs/Inside a Chicken Egg/Daily Food Intake/Eggs-A Natural Wonder/
• Who Lays Eggs - Oviparous - Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones 3-5: Egg Laying Creatures Crossword/The Incredible Egg/Antonyms & Synonyms/Eggs-periment/Egg-U-Bation/Eggstra Math//More Eggstra Math/Who Hatches From an Egg/Egg Parts/Daily Food Intake/Eggs-A Natural Wonder/Parts of an Egg/Embryology Terminology/Embryology
• Hatchability - Chick that Didn’t Hatch

Lesson #3 • Life Cycle of a Chicken Book – From Chick to Chicken K-2: Life Cycle of a Chicken/Fat Chicks/Chick Word Bank/Chick Writing Form/Stage of An Egg
• Bird Families - Life Cycle of a Chicken
• Differences in Wild/Tame Birds - Bird Family Book 3-5: Life Cycle of a Chicken/Scrambled Eggs/Ducks & Geese/African Penguins/Science Vocabulary/Hidden Words/Scrambled Eggs/Alphabetical Order/
- Baby Birds

Lesson #4 • How Hatching Happens Book – Good Morning Chick K-2: How a Chick Hatches/Booklet How a Chick Hatches/Chicks/Sounds Ch/Goose on the Loose/Gibby’s Big Egg/Chick-Chick-A-Dee-Dee/Ducks/Egg Poem and Chick Song/Caring for Eggs and Chickens
• Review Brooder Equipment
Video – PBS Streaming –
“Animal Discovery Fun for Farm Animals 3-5: How a Chick Hatches/Hatching/Find Our Hatching Words/David’s Duck/A Chick Named Chico/The Cheerful Chicken/Crossword/Scrambled Words/Egg Search/Caring for Eggs and Chickens

Video Resources:

1. Magic School Bus Cracks a Yolk



Reading Resources:
Blanchet, Francoise. What to do with...An Egg. New York: Barron's Woodbury, ©1979.
Eggcyclopedia. American Egg Board. 1460 Renaissance Drive, Park Ridge, IL 60068.
Garelick May. What's Inside?. New York: Scholastic Book Services,. ©1968.
Griffin, Margaret. The Amazing Egg Book. New York: Addison Wesley. ©1989.
Hariton, Anca. Egg Story. New York: Penguin Books. ©1992.
Helwig, Hans. Farm Animals. New York: Random House. ©1978.
Lauber, Patricia. What's Hatching Out of the Egg?. New York: Crown Publishers. ©1975.
Milgrom, Harry. Egg-ventures, First Science Experiments. New York: E. P. Dutton. ©1974.
Nassiet, Claude. Egg Art. New York: Drake Publishers. ©1971.
Pflug, Betsy. Egg-speriment. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. ©1973.
Provensen, A and M. Who's In The Egg? New York: Golden Press. ©1970.
Selsam, Millicent. All About Eggs. New York: William R. Scott. ©1952.
Johnson, Sylvia. Inside an Egg. New York: Lerner Publications. (A Lerner Natural Science Book) . Reprint October, 1987.
New York State Standards:
English
Communication Strategies
• Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purpose.
Life Science
Life Cycle of Organisms
• Plants and animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into adults, reproducing, and eventually dying. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms.
• Plants and animals closely resemble their parents.
• Many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents of the organism, but other characteristics result from an individual's interactions with the environment. Inherited characteristics include the color of flowers and the number of limbs of an animal. Other features, such as the ability to ride a bicycle, are learned through interactions with the environment and cannot be passed on to the next generation.
Math