Chickens, Chickens, Chickens!
Fun Classroom Resources from KET
May 14 is Dance Like a Chicken Day! Take a break and enjoy some of these fun and educational resources about chickens.
Chicken Dance
Chicken Dance. These little chickens have a big problem: they're trying to do a really cool dance, but they keep getting stuck. Follow the pattern to help the chickens finish their dance, in this game based on the series Peg + Cat.
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Grades: PreK-K
100 Chickens | Interactive SMART Board Activity
100 Chickens | Interactive SMART Board Activity. Use this interactive SMART board activity from the PBS Kids LAB to help children practice counting up to ten objects in a scattered configuration and visualizing the relationship between ten and one hundred. This visual activity will make elementary math more fun within the classroom!
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Grades: PreK-K
25 Chickens | Peg + Cat
25 Chickens | Peg + Cat. The chickens are out again! The teens help Peg and Cat pick them up, five at a time. After this video, kids should understand counting and grouping in fives.
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Grades PreK-K
Dixie Chimps: Goodbye, Chick (ch)
Dixie Chimps: Goodbye, Chick (ch). In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Dixie Chimps sing a song about an annoying chicken, emphasizing the “ch” sound. The song provides vocabulary words including: charming, chicken, chose, chewed, cheese, checkers, cheated, chase, chicken, chair, chomping, chips, chuckling, chirping, chase, choice, and chick. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Language and Vocabulary Development, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness.
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Grades PreK-1
Wheel of Fitness
Wheel of Fitness. This Kindergarten through 5th grade video is similar to Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and perform the exercise shown. These movements are fun and engaging while ranging from individual, partner to group exercises that include planks, rock paper scissors while jogging and the chicken dance!
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Grades: K-5
Super Spy: Chickilla
Super Spy: Chickilla. When Super Spy and the Other Guy are faced with a Chickilla (a fusion of a chicken and a gorilla), they get their think on and create a cornana (a fusion of an ear of corn and a banana) in order to distract the Chickilla and complete their mission. This resource teaches students how to use use evidence to infer a solution and bring that solution to its proposed conclusion.
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Grades: 1-3
The Great Egg Question: Sketches at a Poultry Farm, 1887
The Great Egg Question: Sketches at a Poultry Farm, from 'The Illustrated London News', 2nd April 1887. English School, (19th century). Medium: engraving. Date: 1887. Foster mother for new born chickens; Provenance: Private Collection.
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Grades: 3-12
Chicken Waste and Water Pollution
Chicken Waste and Water Pollution. This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters” describes the problem of water pollution from chicken waste. On the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore, large-scale chicken farms dominate the landscape. These factory farms produce a bountiful supply of cheap chicken, but also an excess of chicken manure. Runoff from these farms, which is largely unregulated, flows into rivers that pollute the bay. While chicken farmers and chicken companies debate who should be responsible for the waste, the industry has successfully resisted pollution control regulations, arguing that voluntary practices are better.
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Grades: 6-12
Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth | Crash Course Biology #17
Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth | Crash Course Biology #17. Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology. By looking at biology through early embryonic growth and differentiation, we can compare the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. Also fruit flies with eyes on their legs and chickens with teeth!
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Grades: 9-13+