Tag: chickens

Check out these egg-cellent learning activities all about poultry!

McLean County (IL) teachers can McLean County (IL) teachers can request ag mags and poultry activity kits for their classroom: Click here or find out how to participate in the Chick it Out program to hatch chicks in your classroom!

Illinois Eggs in the Classroom: Daily videos for 21-day incubation

Poultry Ag in a Bag

Reading Materials & Ag-tivities:

• PK – 2nd Grade
  • Poultry Facts for Little Readers
  • Parts of an Egg Paper Plate Diagram
• 3rd – 5th Grade
  • Poultry Ag Mag
    • Ag-Venture Activity Sheet – goes with Poultry Ag Mag
  • University of IL Embryology worksheets (with answer keys)
  • Egg-Cellent Embryology – shows daily development inside the egg, can be cut out & put inside plastic eggs or you can just put them in order from Day 1 – 21
  • Egg Laying Cycle Poster
  • Eggology – egg worksheets & parts of an egg book
  • Bird Beak Lab
• Middle/High School
  • Poultry Reader
  • Shell Porosity
  • The Nutritious Egg
• Find many more Poultry Lessons here!

Animation of Chick Development

Books to Read – set up a FREE account on openlibrary.org to read these online books for FREE!

• Chicks & Chickens by Gail Gibbons
• Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
• Chicken & Egg by Christine Back