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__**Poultry Study Group Planning S**__heet
Leaders: Nicole & Jami Unit: Farms


 * Essential Questions**
 * What is poultry?
 * Why do farms have poultry?
 * What is the life cycle of a chicken?
 * What are some different types of poultry?
 * How does a hen lay an egg?
 * What does an egg need in order to hatch?
 * What are the changes an embryo goes through during incubation?
 * Why do some eggs not hatch into chicks?
 * How do you take care of chickens?

Margaret, Colette, Sonia, John from Fiddlehead Farm
 * Excursions / Visiting Experts**

Hen, rooster, chick, turkey, goose, geese, duck, duckling, eggs, embryo, roost, nesting box, Bantams, Top Hats, Rhode Island Reds, wattle, incubate, coop, comb, crest, feather, wing, grain, crest, yolk, albumen, pip (when they first break the shell), down, membrane, hatch, automatic egg turner
 * Vocabulary**

//(dramatic play; models; painting; sketching; collage; building; music; drawing; photography; book-making)// Raise chicks with incubator (set up incubator, candle eggs, keep journal, observe hatching, set up brooding box, observe, hold and experiment with chicks), look at different types of eggs, cook with eggs, make a model of the inside of an egg, act out a chick hatching and growing, read stories about poultry, sketch different types of poultry, different sounds poultry make
 * Multiple Intelligences: //re-visiting the content in many ways//**

Work from past years (previous class books, sketching examples of bees)
 * Models: //how will students know where they need to arrive?//**

Drafting, revising, editing farm book pages Feedback and critique of illustrations and text for farmbook pages
 * Writing / Critique**

Family Presentation
 * Public Presentation**

Study group participation Farm book page (vocabulary used and concepts included independently) Post family presentation interviews (one-on-one)
 * Assessment**