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=Living Things=

Hatching chicks is a Canberra based program that allows schools to educate students by giving them all they need to watch chicks hatch from eggs.

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Liane provides everything the teacher/school needs for the hatching, including the delivery and set up the incubator with 10 eggs tohatch, instructions with support for back up if needed. They will also provide educational resources and material for the teacher to use. The chickens hatch over the first 2 days and then the school will have the chicks for 2 weeks to watch them grow and continue the education and learning. After the two weeks the school has the option of keeping the chickens with information on how to do so provided or Liane will return and collect them and the equipment.

This is a good resource to have available as it can assist in many areas of learning about living things and gives the students a 'hands on' aspect of learning.

Another company that offers chick hatching in schools, although not Canberra is Living Eggs. It has a website which includes information on resources for the teacher to use for different age groups (early childhood, primary schools and secondary schools). [] It has a section for teacher resources and gives ideas for activities to use relating to different areas of learning.

This is a great resource to have if available to the school as students can learn about development, the life cycle and growth. Teachers can cater the education to different areas and include different activities for students including students with learning disabilities. This could be a way that teachers could use a different technique for maths, science, health and more. Students finding it difficult to learn about addition or subtraction may become more engaged with the subject if the teacher incorporates the chicks into the lesson. Having the students measure or weigh the chicks and then determining how much they have grown each day may give an added incentive to the students to learn.

Hatching Chicks (2011). Retrieved 25 July 2011 from http://www.hatchingchicks.com.au/index.html Living Eggs //Education through life (2011).// Retrieved 25 July 2011 from http://www.livingeggs.com.au/