Hatching Eggs in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide
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- May 2, 2022
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Overview
Classroom experiments with chicken embryos can help you teach complex systems and basic skills such as: NutritionCirculatory systemData measurement, collection and analysisThese projects help students learn biological concepts and develop a deeper understanding of the life sciences. This publication will guide you through incubating and hatching eggs in the classroom including: Which eggs will hatchStoring fertile eggsStorage time, temperature, and humidityPosition of eggsTurning eggsIncubating eggsRecord keepingCandlingHatch stageWhen the chicks hatch This publication also provides helpful reminders, incubation data chart, and a table for possible causes of hatching problems. (13 pages)
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