Lesson 6: Building a Home ‘Tweet Home
Introduction:
These materials are designed to enhance Lesson 6: Building a Home ‘Tweet’ Home. Youth consider how to best meet a chick’s food, water, and shelter needs as they prepare a brooder box.
Focus Question:
- What do chicks need to grow and thrive once they have hatched?
Life Skills:
- Planning and Organizing
Virtual Assets
From Embryo to Chick:
Building a Home Tweet Home
Youth can join 4-H Agent Victoria Brewer in Chatham County, NC and the Livestock Conservancy to build a basic brooder box that can house newly hatched chicks.
Home Tweet Home:
Real Estate Advertisement
Incorporate writing and art with this PDF. Youth pretend that they are real estate agents trying to sell space in a brooder box of their own design.
Chicks in Space: Facilitator Directions
In this lesson, youth explore the idea of “area” using a nonstandard measurement called a “Chickspace”. Templates are included.
Chicks in Space: Youth Directions
Youth can record their ideas as they measure different containers and decide which ones are the most appropriate to use for a brooder box.
Vocabulary Flashcards
Youth can build on the technical vocabulary they learned in Lesson 3.
Eggspressive Shells
Do you know what causes the color of a chicken’s egg? This reading passage explains how chickens lay such a rainbow of egg colors.
Estimated reading level: 700L/Grades 2-3
Lesson 7: Counting the Chicks
Introduction:
These materials are designed to enhance Lesson 7: Counting the Chicks. Youth will explore line symmetry and multi-step problem solving using arrays.
Focus Question:
- How do chicken keepers use math?
Life Skills:
- Learning to Learn
- Critical Thinking
Virtual Assets
Egg Carton Problem Set
Facilitator Guide
Facilitator guidelines to assist instructors in teaching youth how to conceptualize multiplication and division up to 5×5 using the array method.
Egg Carton Problem Set
Utilizing the array model, youth can fill out this form to exercise their understanding of the concept.
Symmetry Shellebration:
Facilitator’s Guide
Facilitator’s Guide: This activity uses the traditional art of pysanky, or “egg writing”, to explore the geometric concept of symmetry. The activity includes a short reading passage and an egg-shaped template that youth can use to create a symmetrical design of their own. Read-aloud suggestions are also provided.
Symmetry Shellebration!
Youth Guide: What do eggs, art, and math have in common? Learn about Ukranian psyanky (pih-zin-key) and find out. Then try your hand at making your own designs.
Lesson 8: Caring and Handling
Introduction:
These materials are designed to enhance Lesson 8: Caring and Handling. Youth learn proper animal handling safety procedures, including hand washing for disease prevention.
Focus Question:
- How do farmers protect themselves and their chicks from disease or injury?
Life Skills:
- Relating to Others
Virtual Assets
After Dinner Science:
Germs Go Away!
Here’s a link to our After Dinner Science page: Go Away Germs!
If you’d like to try out more of our grab-and-go experiments, check out our Grab and Go page.
Spark! Video on Handwashing
Youth can learn about handwashing by watching the above video.
Never Kiss a Chicken Poem
Youth learn about Salmonella and Salmonella prevention in this short poem.
Lesson 9: Eggsploring Careers
Introduction:
These materials are designed to enhance Lesson 9: Eggsploring Careers. Youth will learn about a variety of careers related to the poultry industry.
Focus Question:
- What jobs might I want to do when I grow up?
Life Skills:
- Developing Teamwork
Virtual Assets
I Am / Who Is
(Facilitator Directions)
Facilitator’s guide for how to teach youth how to play I Am / Who Is.
I Am / Who Is
(Activity)
Printout PDF copy of I Am / Who Is.
Interview Guide
This PDF helps youth organize their ideas and reflect on their learning when they have a class speaker or take a field trip to a farm.
Thank You! (Template A)
This PDF acts as a graphic organizer for youth to write a thoughtful thank-you letter for class speakers or field trip hosts. Select the Template that best meets the needs of your youth.
Thank You! (Template B)
This PDF has a simplified version of the graphic organizer in Template A and includes space for youth to illustrate their ideas. Select the Template that best meets the needs of your youth.
Career interviews with Braswell Family Farms
Mill Operations Analyst, Jackie Bunch
Transportation Manager, Tracey Tyson
Live Operations Manager, Jonathan LaFoe
This curriculum is produced by National 4-H and can be located at shop4-h.org. The activities on this page are designed to enhance and work with the curriculum, they are not a substitute for the book content.
