Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
We are making up our science lessons as we go along. Mostly because I have had the hardest time finding Science books, but partly because we are right now studying alot of what my kids are actually interested in.
Right now, that's chickens.
So we are studying embryology, and the science of hatching eggs. Each child has their own egg in the 'bator.
Now I have some of my own in there, too.
Today was day 7, and we candled the eggs. I took each kid with their egg into the bathroom (darkest room of the house) and had them point to the air cell, veins, and to explain in their words if they could see a chick or not. The squeals of excitement when they saw their chick moving around was so much fun!!
After candling their egg I gave them a sheet of paper that I had drawn an egg on. They then had to draw what they saw when we candled the eggs, including the aircell, and label the parts. (i.e. air cell, veining, chick) They were so excited about this part of it!
I went on to candle the frizzle eggs of mine and found one with an obvious blood ring. I could see no signs of life, and the veining was nothing like in their eggs where the chicks were swimming around.
I saw an opportunity for a visual aid of an undeveloped chick. Yup, I cracked that egg open! It had obviously died around day 4 or 5.
The kids were very fascinated seeing a chick embryo. I was fascinated to see it was encased in a "bag of water" much like a human baby is. We could also see where the chick feeds from the yolk. My kids were so thrilled with this. They turned their egg drawings over and drew a picture of what the embryo looked like.
Now I took pics, of both the egg during candling, front and back of the embryo, and what the embryo looked like with all the water and yolk rinsed off.
Would anyone like to see the pictures?
This is the egg. You can see the blood ring to the right. This is after 7 days of incubation.
Picture of what the inside of the egg looked like after I opened it.
The rest of the pictures are of the embryo.
Right now, that's chickens.
So we are studying embryology, and the science of hatching eggs. Each child has their own egg in the 'bator.
Now I have some of my own in there, too.
Today was day 7, and we candled the eggs. I took each kid with their egg into the bathroom (darkest room of the house) and had them point to the air cell, veins, and to explain in their words if they could see a chick or not. The squeals of excitement when they saw their chick moving around was so much fun!!
After candling their egg I gave them a sheet of paper that I had drawn an egg on. They then had to draw what they saw when we candled the eggs, including the aircell, and label the parts. (i.e. air cell, veining, chick) They were so excited about this part of it!
I went on to candle the frizzle eggs of mine and found one with an obvious blood ring. I could see no signs of life, and the veining was nothing like in their eggs where the chicks were swimming around.
I saw an opportunity for a visual aid of an undeveloped chick. Yup, I cracked that egg open! It had obviously died around day 4 or 5.
The kids were very fascinated seeing a chick embryo. I was fascinated to see it was encased in a "bag of water" much like a human baby is. We could also see where the chick feeds from the yolk. My kids were so thrilled with this. They turned their egg drawings over and drew a picture of what the embryo looked like.
Now I took pics, of both the egg during candling, front and back of the embryo, and what the embryo looked like with all the water and yolk rinsed off.
Would anyone like to see the pictures?
This is the egg. You can see the blood ring to the right. This is after 7 days of incubation.
Picture of what the inside of the egg looked like after I opened it.
The rest of the pictures are of the embryo.
