Workshop Highlights

Hatching Science 2015

Resource Packet

• FLP Online Course
• Beeline Newsletter
• Where Does Ag Fit in the State Core
• Poultry Fact Sheet
• FAQ Hatching Science Wiki
• Egg Facts

Explanation of the Hatching Process and Equipment

• Hatching and Brooding Chicks in the Classroom
  • Preparing and Operating the Incubator
  • Ordering and Transporting Eggs
  • Brooding Chicks
  • Chick Midwifery
  • Assessing Chick Health (Deformities, Hatch Rate, Death)
  • How It's Made - Hatchery Chicks

Eggology

• Egg Anatomy
• Parts of an Egg PowerPoint
• Air Transfer
• Charting Data

Hatching Science with Classroom Chicks

• Countdown to Hatch
  • 21 Days of Discovery PowerPoint
  • Chick Embryo Development Video
  • Chick Hatching Time Lapse Video
• Life Cycles
  • Modern Marvels Egg Documentary
• Heredity
  • Parent/Offspring Cards

Inside the Egg, Hatching Chicks

• Candling Eggs
  • Egg Candling Photos

Recommended Books

• Chick Life Cycles
• Chicks and Chickens
• Daisy Comes Home
• One Egg
• One Hen
• The Chicken-chasing Queen of Lamar County
• Tillie Lays an Egg
• HenCam
• Zinnia and Dot

• Ideas for Integration

Questions and Awarding of Grants