Grades K–5 (Kit)
Explore heredity with chickens! This colorful, hands-on kit helps students observe similarities and differences between parent chickens and their offspring. Students compare traits such as feather color, comb type, and body shape while discussing inherited characteristics.
Perfect for elementary science and life science units, this activity builds a foundation for understanding heredity and variation in living organisms.
Kit Contents
- Full-color Parent-Offspring chicken breed cards
- Instructions for classroom use
Lesson Plans
Use this kit with the featured lesson Hatching Science with Classroom Chicks on the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix. Additional heredity and life science lessons can also be found on the Matrix.
Extend the Learning
Have students record observations of traits they see in the cards, then compare them to real chicks if you are doing a hatching project. Extend the lesson by exploring other examples of parent-offspring traits in mammals, plants, or even in the students themselves (eye color, hair type).
