Hatching Eggs in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide
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- Publication
- Date of Publication
- May 2, 2022
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Overview
Classroom experiments with chicken embryos can help you teach complex systems and basic skills such as:
- Nutrition
- Circulatory system
- Data measurement, collection and analysis
These 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 hatch
- Storing fertile eggs
- Storage time, temperature, and humidity
- Position of eggs
- Turning eggs
- Incubating eggs
- Record keeping
- Candling
- Hatch stage
- When 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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