Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Eggs and Hen's Diet: Can You Get Bigger Eggs for Peanuts?
The goal of this project is to determine whether feeding chickens a dietary supplement of peanuts will result in larger and heavier eggs. If peanuts do increase egg size, a secondary goal will be to determine the optimal amount of peanut...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Great Egg Drop!
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? One might ask the same question about potential and kinetic energy. Make observations while you watch the video below. Think about what scientific conclusion you could make from your...
Other
Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Constructing an Egg Candler
Directions on how to make a device to candle eggs, or check on the progress of the chicken embryo. Links to numerous incubation and embryology resources.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Chickens at Enchanted Learning
Chicken jokes, rhymes, printouts and educational information can be found on this site.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Andling Eggs
Directions for candling eggs including the how and why of the egg candling process.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Amphibian Reproduction and Development
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the reproduction and development of amphibians.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?
It's a question that has perplexed everyone from the ancient Greeks to modern scholars. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Take a crack at this curious conundrum. [3:31]
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope From Egg to Chick
Are you interested in a science project of hatching chicks? This website is designed to help you study incubation and embryonic development of chicken eggs. Illustrations also show the parts of an egg and the stages of embryonic...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: From Egg to Chick
This lesson is intended to help young scholars realize that they can learn much about eggs/chicks or any animal through careful observation. They will become familiar with the importance and proper care of eggs/chicks, whether on a farm...
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
Michigan Reach Out
Egg Fun
This site provides an observation lesson plan using eggs. Students will be able to determine sizes of eggs, how they roll, and if the shell has holes.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Novel and Picture Book Ideas (Lesson Plans)
Novels and picture books are great ways to teach across the curriculum. This site lists about 75 novels and picture books around which CanTeach has constructed lesson ideas and plans. All grade levels indicated.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Incubation & Embryology
This website is designed to provide elementary and high school teachers with knowledge on the chicken's egg, its importance to man, and its role in reproduction of the species. Lessons are divided into grades K-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Bird Reproduction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do birds reproduce? We know that chickens lay eggs. But how do they do that? Learn more about bird reproduction in this learning module produced by CK-12.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope: The Journey Begins
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
Other
Barnyard Palace : Poultry
Six and a half billion in the United States each year! Chickens, that is. Find out more by looking at this site. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rubber Egg Diffusion
This lab will illustrate diffusion and osmosis through a semi-permeable membrane. A chicken egg will be used as the model cell, because the yolk is actually a single large cell. The surrounding egg white, or albumin, contains water and...
Curated OER
Egg Anatomy
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does a Chick Breathe Inside Its Shell?
Whether a chick can breathe inside its shell is an interesting question. Every animal needs oxygen to survive, so the chick must get air somehow. Try this science project to discover if the pores in a chicken egg shell allow water to...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Chicken Egg
This photo shows a close up view of a chicken egg and its shadow from above.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Cooperative Extension: 4 H Virtual Farm: Poultry
Find answers to all kinds of questions about how chickens are raised on the poultry farms of Virginia. Meet a poultry farmer, learn about the commercial poultry industry, watch a chick hatch, and learn how to judge quality eggs and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Egg Citing Adventures
[Free Registration/Login Required] Chickens aren't the only ones who lay eggs. Through poetry and hands-on activities, students learn how birds, reptiles, fish, and amphibians are alike and different. Number activities and videos are...
Virginia Tech
Virginia Cooperative Extension: 4 H Virtual Farm: Poultry: Virtual Hatch Project
A virtual chicken-hatch project takes students into the world of egg incubation and embryonic development.