Chicken Project

7th grade is awesome!  Today I did a chicken project with Big Dog and Little Thing.  We watched a video from the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago of a chick hatching.  We had already read a Life Cycle of a Chicken book, so the video tied in with the book.  After the video, we made a little display out of two folders glued together.  Little Thing colored some chicken coloring pages that I got from http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/cp_farm/cp_chicken.htm, and we cut those out and glued them to the front and back of our display.  Big Dog researched four of our seven chickies, and I researched three, since he wanted to do the extra one.  We cut out pictures of our seven chick breeds (Buff Orpington, Australorp, Ancona, Dominique, Welsummer, Columbian Wyandotte, and Speckled Sussex) and wrote three factoids about each chick beside the pictures.  Finally, Big Dog and I made an egg flip through thing that showed the color of the eggs each chicken will lay.  We also made pockets that held a breed appearance card for each chicken.  I think it went together well.

front cover of the chicken project

inside of the chicken project

back cover of chicken project