Easter is coming, which means eggs, and not just the chocolate kind: real eggs!
Amaze the children, and yourself, with this wonderful project that lets you watch adorable little chicks hatch.
It is a turnkey project: we deliver the fertile eggs, incubator, brooder, feed and bedding, show you how to use the equipment and take the birds back to the farm. The hardest part will be saying goodbye…
Rental service and two 60-minute workshops:
Visit 1: Workshop: The diversity of the animal kingdom (60 minutes).
Visits 2 and 3 can take place on the same day; conditions apply to travel.
Visit 2: Workshop: How chicks develop (60 minutes).
An explanatory workshop on hatching, with training on the equipment and on caring for the eggs (one week) and then the babies (one week). A growth observation sheet is provided.
Visit 3: Delivery of the 6 eggs, bedding, feed, and an automatic incubator and brooder (for up to 20 days).
Visit 4: The chicks and the equipment go back to the farm.
NOTE: January to the end of April only.
Learning goals (elementary)
- Classify living things by kingdom.
- Sort animals by class (mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, amphibians).
- Explain different diets (carnivore, herbivore, omnivore).
- Describe physical features that show how an animal is adapted to its environment.
- Describe the role of the male (rooster) and the female (hen) in reproduction.
- Describe the fertilization stages that are reproduced in class (incubator).
- Describe how the embryo develops (egg-laying animals).
- Record each chick’s development on observation sheets.
- Present the tasks and conditions that help the chicks survive.
