Workshop Highlights

Hatching Science 2019

Resource Packet

• About Agriculture in the Classroom
• Teacher Resource Center
• Beeline Newsletter
• Where Does Agriculture Fit? (Elementary)
• Where Does Agriculture Fit? (Secondary)
• Poultry Fact Sheet
• 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
• 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

• 21Days of Discovery PowerPoint
• Chick EmbryoDevelopment Video
• ChickHatching Time Lapse Video

Life Cycles

• Modern Marvels Egg Documentary

Heredity

• Genetic Characteristics of Chickens PowerPoint
• Chicken Genetics Matching Cards

Inside the Egg, Hatching Chicks

Candling Eggs

• Egg Candling Photos

Elementary Resources

• Chick Life Cycles (Book)
• Chicks and Chickens (Book)
• Daisy Comes Home (Book)
• One Egg (Book)
• HenCam (Multimedia)

Secondary Resources

• Photoperiod Phenomena (Lesson)
• Hen House Engineering (Lesson)
  • Hen House Prototype (Kit)

Ideas for Integration

Questions and Awarding of Grants