U.S. Poultry Companion Guide
This is a Companion Guide created by the National FFA Organization to help high school students who have completed the poultry curriculum bring poultry-industry content into elementary classrooms. It provides facilitation guides, materials lists, worksheets, and answer keys for hands-on activities across four sections: All About Poultry (body parts, types, turkey numbers, history), Eggs (colors, sizes, freshness, parts, hatching), and Production/Welfare (care and habitats).
At a glance
- Grade level
- High School, Elementary
- Materials
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- Poultry Body Parts worksheet (per student)
- You and a Chicken worksheet (per student)
- PowerPoint or flip chart of chicken image
- Guess Who? worksheet (per student)
- Set of Matching Game Pieces (per group)
- Give It Your Best Guess! worksheet (per student)
- Poultry History: Then vs. Now worksheet (per student)
- Markers, crayons and/or colored pencils
- Egg Colors worksheet (per student)
- Egg Sizes worksheet (per student)
- A scale for each group
- Various objects from the classroom
- Is It Fresh? worksheet (per student)
- Five eggs of varying freshness levels for each group
- Bowl with cold water for each group
- Paper towels
- Parts of an Egg worksheet (per student)
- Eggs: raw and hard boiled (enough for each student or pair)
- Paper plates
- Toothpicks
- Mini sticky notes
- Trashcans
- Am I Eating a Baby Chick? worksheet (per student)
- Baby Chicks worksheet (per student)
- Hatching Eggs handout
- 3-2-1 Activity Sheet (per student)
- Needs for Survival worksheet (per student)
- Chicken Habitats worksheet (per student)
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
Common Core Anchor Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.6Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.4Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.
Next Generation Science Standards
- 3-LS4-3Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
- 4-LS1-1From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.