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This plan had a lot of components to pull together an integrated lesson. It’s very close to being done, it
just needs some clarification. Throughout it, the ‘project’ areas were too vague. These should be a short
paragraph stating what the students will do to meet the standards and produce something to be
assessed. I put in some prompts of things it thought it sounded like you were going to do, but if you
could be more specific in these sections, it would help make this plan more concrete and allow others to
know if they would feel comfortable trying this lesson with their students. Once those parts are written,
then they are combined to become the basic plan, - what you would tell and admin you STEAM plan was
going to be. Then the basic plan is condensed to be the ‘essential concept’ – what you would tell a
parent your STEAM plan was going to be. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks! - gy
Title :How To Build A Chicken Coop __________STEAM Lesson Brief
Educators on the team: Holly Morgan, Colby Williams, Susan Childress (EC) Sylvia Leftwich and Sandy
Hunt (CF)
Trained:8/18/14-8/19/14_Town/State Greensboro, NC
Students use knowledge from across the disciplines to strengthen their understanding of each subject’s
content and its related careers through topic or theme oriented realistic problem-based activity-rich
lessons.
Theme that this lesson would tie to: Chickens & Biology
Specific Topic Concept within that theme: Life cycle of a Chicken
PROJECT IDEA + brief notes & supplies
BASIC CONCEPTS
Essential Concept: Lifecycle of a Chicken
and the needs of a chicken.
One to two sentence synopsis of lesson
plan including over-arching verbs that tie
to each subject. – Try to write each section
to the right, then combine those to make a
basic plan. Make sure that each subject is
represented in the basic plan and the basic
plan is compressed to a short concept
statement with key verbs that will draw in
EACH subject.
Science – Incubation/Hatching of Eggs
 Concepts – Life cycle of chicken
 Goal / Objectives – Students will be able to
summarize the life cycle of an animal (chicken).
 Standards - 2.L.1 Understand animal life cycles.
2.L.1.1 Summarize the life cycle of
animals:
• Birth
• Developing into an adult
• Reproducing
• Aging and death
 Careers – Chicken “Growers”, farmers, geneticists,
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Basic Plan:
Begin with what will be done for an
engagement/introduction piece.
Great video
https://happytrail.thehappyegg.co.uk/far
mlife/video/59
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Incubate and hatch chicken eggs. Children
will then research and design possible
chicken coops to house the chickens.
Short paragraph that gives a brief view of
what will be done in each subject to
contribute to the overall lesson. – this
should be a 1 sentence synthesis of the
‘project’ sections to the right. You need all
the subjects represented here.
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Technology & Engineering –
 Concepts – Engineering a Habitat
 Goal / Objectives – Students will be able to use
technology/tools to design a chicken coop.
 Standards - Standard 1. Students will develop an
understanding of the characteristics and scope of
technology.
K-2 A. The natural world and human-made world
are different.
B. All people use tools and techniques to help them
do things.
Standard 15. Students will develop an
understanding of and be able to select and use
agricultural and related biotechnologies.
The use of technologies in agriculture makes it
possible for food to be available year round and to
conserve resources.
End with what the product will be and how
it will be tested/analyzed - assessed.
Skill level (Grade Range): 2nd grade
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Timing of Lesson: 1 month
Be more specific
how many days / class sessions / length of
classes – be specific – either list as classes
being in unison or time needed in each
subject separately
Basic Supplies: incubators, eggs, light
bulbs, chicken feed, boxes, heat lamps,
water, chicken wire
All Subjects:
Individual Subjects:
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Entomologists - Chicken “Doctor” veterinarian,
Project – Caring for the eggs while they are
incubating. Please elaborate. Are they going to get
eggs and have a growing box in the classroom?
How are they going to be introduced to the life
cycle? Will they be putting pictures in order to
show their understanding?
Assessment – Students will able to make a flow
chart and sequence the stages of the life cycle.
Extension – Students will write an informational
piece about a life cycle of a chicken.
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Careers – Commercial Construction Manufacturing
Project - Design/Research a model chicken coop.
to meet your standards: Are they researching
natural chicken nests and constructed coup? And
how that relates to prolonged seasons? How are
they designing this? Elaborate.
Assessment – Students will be assessed on their
designs using a rubric. PLEASE do not say ‘use a rubric’
without saying what categories and basic parameters
will be on it. It is expected that every assessment be
rubric-based.
 Extension – Build a model chicken coop
Math – Design a chicken coop
 Concepts – Geometry and measurement
 Goal / Objectives – Students will be able to use
knowledge of geometric shapes and measurement
to draft a design of a chicken coop.
 Standards – 2.MD.3 Estimate lengths using units of
inches, feet, centimeters, and meters 2.G.1
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IT Resources:
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Other Resources:
Townsend Poultry Farm
Hopkins Poultry
Misc:
Fun extension ideas
http://www.the-chickenchick.com/p/diyprojects.html
http://www.incredibleegg.org/eggfacts/basic-egg-facts/eggproduction/laying
different type of egg production places
http://www.aeb.org/foodservice/whyeggs
commercial production
https://happytrail.thehappyegg.co.uk/far
mlife/video/59
Photos:
if you have done this project, please add
some process pictures, if not, please at
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Recognize and draw shapes having specified
attributes
Careers – Farmer, Engineer, Architect
Project – Design the chicken coop This is the same
as your T&E project. Again, your project needs to
be more than the basic concept. You need to walk
us through the project and what the students will
be DOING. How does this relate to your math
standards?
Assessment – Teachers will assess drawings using a
rubric. PLEASE do not say ‘use a rubric’ without
saying what categories and basic parameters will
be on it. It is expected that every assessment be
rubric-based.
Extension – Students will be using the designs to
build an actually model of the chicken coop.
LA – Reader’s Theatre (Chicken Little or Chicken Big)
 Concepts – Students will be able to read with
fluency and identify elements of a story.
 Goal / Objectives – Identify story elements
 Standards – 2.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in
the points of view of characters including by
speaking in a different voice for each character
when reading dialogue aloud RL.2.1 Ask and
answer such questions such as who, what, where,
when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding key details of a text.
 Careers – Authors of Children’s Books
 Project – great for 2.6 -Students will perform their
readers theatre to another grade level. Please
address how you will meet 2.1.
Reader’s Theatre
 http://www.thebestclass.org/Chicken_Big_Reader
s_Theater_Script-1.pdf
 http://www.thebestclass.org/files/QuickSiteImage
s/ChickenLittle.pdf
 Assessment – Teacher will assess students on their
performance using a rubric. PLEASE do not say ‘use
a rubric’ without saying what categories and basic
parameters will be on it. It is expected that every
assessment be rubric-based.
 Extension - Students create their own ending to
the story.
SS – Timelines; Goods and Services
 Concepts – Sequencing, recording data, wants and
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least find something that might be similar
on the internet and put the link to the
picture.
Ideally the pictures should show examples
of student work or pictures that you would
show to students to help set the
parameters of what you expect from
them.
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needs
Goal / Objectives – Students will be able to create
a timeline to show the sequence of a chicken’s life.
Students will be able to distinguish between wants
and needs.
Standards – 2.H.1.1 Use timelines to show
sequencing of events. 2.E.1.1 Give examples of
ways in which business in the communities meet
the needs and wants of consumers
Careers – Farmer, Grocer, Truck Driver
Project - Students will create a timeline
sequencing the life cycle of a chicken. You need to
connect this to 2.E.1.1. to extend it to be a SS
project. You could to relate it to show them how
many eggs people buy a day in their community or
in the US and what the egg demand is and what
the price is and where their local eggs come from.
Assessment – Teacher will assess student’s
timelines. – needs to show more social connection
for timeline than scientific life cycle of a chicken
Extension – Students will use technology to
present their timelines.
Art – Chicken mask, chicken ballet costume
 Concepts – Design and create a mask
 Goal / Objectives – Students will be able to design
and create a mask.
 Standards – 2.AE.1.2 Understand how the use of
costumes, props, and masks enhance dramatic
play.
 Careers – Illustrator of Children’s Books, Prop
designer, Artist
 Project – Students will create a mask. Please
elaborate, what will it be made out of? What are
the parameters of their mask?
 Assessment – Completed mask. That meets what
qualifications?
 Extension – Students will design a costume to
accompany the mask.
PE /Health-Chicken Dance - awesome!
 Goal / Objectives – Sequence of Movement
 Standards - Standard 2 - The physically literate
individual applies knowledge of concepts,
principles, strategies and tactics related to
movement and performance.
 Careers – Chicken Technician, Dancer
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Project – Students will learn and perform chicken
dance
Assessment – Students can do chicken
independently.
Extension – Students will add two new moves to
the chicken dance based on knowledge of a
chicken.
Music – Ballet of The Unhatched Chicks
 Concepts –Movement with music
 Goal / Objectives – Perform a ballet in the manner
of a chicken
 Standards – 2.MR.1.1 Illustrate prominent musical
characteristic or specific musical events while
listening and/or singing music 2.CP.1-3 Create
dance phrases with simple patterns
 Careers – music/dance teacher, choreographer
 Project – Perform ballet. Please Elaborate. – for
students not comfortable performing, can they
help with the production, music, choreography,
etc?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MUfbhdN7A
(Chicken Ballet)
 Assessment – Students will correctly perform the
ballet independently.
 Extension – Students will create their own
song/rap about the life cycle of a chicken.
Oh my – the kids might enjoy it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSc7Mv0QHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITb3a67XUI
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