JaKolbie Jones – Backyard Chickens
This FFA lesson plan, “Backyard Chickens,” follows student Ja’Kolbie Jones’s supervised agricultural experience (SAE) raising chickens in his backyard. Through a video, worksheets, and research activities, students learn how chicken embryos develop, outline the process of incubating and hatching chicken eggs, and reflect on the potential difficulties of incubation. The resource includes student activity sheets (“A Chick, Chick Here” and “Everywhere a Chick”) with answer keys.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Explain and illustrate how chicken embryos develop.
- Outline the process of incubating and hatching chicken eggs.
- Reflect on the potential difficulties of incubating eggs.
- Time required
- 180 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "A Chick, Chick Here" worksheet for each student
- A copy of the "Everywhere a Chick" worksheet for each student
- Internet access to play the video in real time or embed it in a PowerPoint ahead of time
- Technology access for students to research embryo development and incubation
- Resources/References
- 1. Video: "Backyard Chickens SAE | Ja'Kolbie Jones," https://vimeo.com/318005504; 2. Website: Poultry Hub, http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/incubation/; 3. Article: "Hatching Eggs at Home," https://www.purinamills.com/chicken-feed/education/detail/hatching-eggs-at-home-a-21-day-guide-for-baby-chicks
- Cross-Curricular Connections
- Science: Explain and illustrate how a chicken embryo develops; Outline the process of egg incubation. English/Language Arts: Written reflection of potential difficulties in incubating eggs.
- Created
- 03/2019 by the National FFA Organization
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.02Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive.
- CRP.05Consider the environmental, social and economic impact of decisions.
- CRP.07Employ valid and reliable research strategies. Career-ready individuals are discerning in accepting and using new information to make decisions, change practices or inform strategies.
- CRP.08Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Career-ready individuals readily recognize problems in the workplace, understand the nature of the problem, and devise effective plans to solve the problem.
- CRP.11Use technology to enhance productivity. Career-ready individuals find and maximize the productive value of existing and new technology to accomplish workplace tasks and solve workplace problems.
AFNR Performance Element
- AS.04Apply principles of animal reproduction to achieve desired outcome for performance, development, and/or economic production.
Common Career Technical Core
- AG-ANI4Apply principles of animal reproduction to achieve desired outcome for performance, development, and/or economic production.
Common Core – Reading: Informational Text
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.8Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
Common Core – Science & Technical Subjects
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.9Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts.
FFA Precept
- FFA.CS-MCommunication: Effectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.CS-NDecision Making: Analyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.
- FFA.PG-JMental Growth: Embrace cognitive and intellectual development relative to reasoning, thinking and coping.
- FFA.PL-AAction: Assume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.
NASDCTEc
- AGPC01.04Analyze and summarize factors that influence an animal's reproduction cycle to demonstrate an understanding of the species response.