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Title:
| Animals: Chickens |
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Description:
| These sites have many facts about chickens, including their diet, behavior, life cycle, feathers, and breeds. Watch a time-lapse video of a chicken hatching, complete the online jigsaw puzzle, or try one of the many egg activities. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Chickscope
This is a comprehensive site that follows the development of the chicken embryo from day one to day 21, when the chicken hatches. View many photographs showing each stage.
Museum of Science and Industry: Chick Hatchery
Click on the movie link at the left to watch a time-lapsed video of a chicken hatching. Requires QuickTime. There is also a link to "Egg Development."
Chicken Printout
This chicken illustration can be printed out for coloring. The page includes information about a chicken's anatomy and diet.
Going Coo Coo for Chicken Feathers
This page has interesting facts about chicken feathers and their uses. You can see images of magnified feathers.
Farm Animals: Chicken
This commercial site has pictures of baby chickens. Turn up the volume to hear the rooster and chicken noises.
FeatherSite - The Poultry Page: Chicken
Browse through this alphabetical list of chicken breeds and click on the links to view pictures.
Factmonster
This page has links to encyclopedia entries that describe several breeds of chickens such as the Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, Plymouth Rock, Red Rock, and Leghorn chickens.
Jigsaw Puzzles
This is an online jigsaw puzzle game. The difficulty can be adjusted by clicking "Shapes" from the left menu and selecting one from the pop-up options. Fun for the SMARTboard.
A Closer Look at Chickens
Read about chickens and their behavior, including how they build their nests.
Embroyology Worksheets: Label the Chicken Parts
This pdf file provides a chicken illustration for coloring and labeling the parts of a chicken. The second page provides the answers.
Chicken Feathers
Learn how feathers protect a chicken and what the different markings are called. There are many more links at the bottom to other topics on chickens and eggs.
Poultry: Feeding Schedules for Chickens
This site explains the food requirements for chickens and suggests a feeding schedule.
Chicken And Eggs
This site has audio clips of a hen and rooster.
Fascinating Egg Facts
Learn fascinating egg facts and try to answer some egg questions. The site has lots of colorful pictures.
Children's Activities
This site includes puzzles, jokes, tricks, activities and other games about eggs. Click on "Nutrition" to learn more facts about eggs.
Egg Quiz
Try this egg quiz to learn more about eggs.
Eggs Playground
This site is filled with egg activities for kids.
Basic Omelet
Try this simple recipe for cooking an omelet.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1, 3, 4, 6, 3, 4, 8, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, 2.1
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