Embryology

Grades: Elementary and Middle

Objectives:

• To provide a life science activity demonstrating embryo development
• To help students develop an appreciation of life

Program:

• Three to four week program of incubating fertile avian eggs to live chicks

Penn State Extension will provide:

• Student's workbook or duplicated single worksheets
• Teacher's guide and teacher's resource book
• Incubator and temperature gauge, egg candler
• Two dozen fertile eggs (smaller quantity of quail)
• Chick starter kit - scratch feed and water dish
• Introductory lesson on the growth of the egg
• Visit to demonstrate candling of the egg
• Pick-up of equipment and chicks
• Provide completion ribbon for each student
• Extension staff support and expertise

School's Responsibility:

• Provide member/student enrollment data
• Responsible for daily management of the incubator
• Work out system for placement of chicks with Extension staff
• Must provide a cheese cloth for incubator, after hatching a heat source such as a light bulb, large box for chicks and a mason jar for water
• Responsible for cleaning of incubator at end of the program
• Provide evaluation data from pre/post test if requested

Available March to June.