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Since we were getting new chicks as a family, I wanted to incorporate this into our schooling…and we did! And it’s been great!! Here are tons of ideas & books & resources we have used!
We started off with the free lapbook from Homeschool Share, as well as this post on learning about Eggs from Wende at the HSS blog…and the unit just took off from there!
The Enormous Egg
Chicks & Chickens
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones 
Where Do Chicks Come From?
Chicken Sunday
Rechenka’s Eggs (Paperstar)
Chick cupcakes we made using idea found here!
We have had so much fun learning about our new chickens!! If you’d like to see more of our chickens, click here!
THANK you for these resources! We are not allowed to have chickens, but we are going to be hatching some in a few weeks! Our county extension center loans an incubator and gives you 12 eggs AND a curriculum for $20. We are going to hatch some eggs, take care of some baby chicks, and then give them to a local homeschooler when they get too big and smelly. Looking so forward to this and your resources will be so awesome!!! Thanks!
Nicole, that will be SO awesome! I would love to see them hatch!! 🙂 We have had so much fun…the egg experiments have been particularly fun for my children! ENJOY!!
Thank you for share these wonderful resources and ideas! We recently moved to the country setting with a small 3.5 acres. We will be having chickens here soon and excited even more now!
We currently have eggs in our Nursery and we are having so much Learning Fun!
http://nursery2014.ctkreading.net/
I did the egg squeeze test with the kids (teens) after finding it on youtube… I broke two of them. No one else could break them and even my husband couldn’t, but when I tried to show him that they wouldn’t brake I crushed one so hard there was egg yolk across the room on the ceiling… I was like, “Now hang on, maybe that one was really weak shelled is all.” So I grabbed up another one that looked stronger aaaaand did it again… in my left hand! Worked better with the brown eggs rather than the pale eggs we had, but still… Do I have crazy strong hands or something? I have lifted a lot of hay bales in my life. Maybe one finger put more pressure than the others and made a weak spot? Ooooooor I’m weird LOL!