Chicken Life Cycle Teaching Resources

Oviparous Animals @ Little Giraffes
Cross-curricular activities for studying about eggs and oviparous animals. Lots of photos!

“Eggs”tra Special Eggs
Activities for science, art, centers, language arts, poems and pocket charts, and more! www.calicocookie.com

Chicken and Hen Theme
Chick, chicken, hen, and egg printables, crafts, and activities. www.first-school.ws

Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones Unit
Activities for Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones. www.angelfire.com/la/kinderthemes

Chicks and Eggs: Beginning Embryology for Primary Students
Using this SMART Board file, students will be able to learn about the development of a chick in the egg and how it hatches from the egg. www.nylearns.org

Embryology: The 21 Day Chicken Life Cycle
Illustrations, photos, and very thorough explanations of the development of a chick. chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu

Incubation and Embryology
Dozens of lesson plans and printable activity sheets for learning about chickens and eggs. urbanext.illinois.edu

It Started As An Egg Literature Unit
Five days of activities including photos. www.hubbardscupboard.org

Look Who’s Hatching
Several science activities for incubating eggs and hatching chicks. www.angelfire.com/la/kinderthemes

The Baby Chick Hatchery
Watch this video to see baby chicks hatch! www.msichicago.org

With a chick, chick here…!
Peek inside this kindergarten classroom as they waited for their baby ducks to hatch.