How and Why Hatching Eggs

If you can engage your child in the learning process, he doesn't even know he's learning. He's just having a great time. There's nothing more engaging than the process of watching a new life come into the world. Here, your child gets to participate in a "birth"! This study has benefits for almost any age student.

Here are just a few of the topics of study that are a part of the incubation and hatching unit.

• Acurate record keeping
• Reading a thermometer
• Making your own wet-bulb thermometer for measuring humidity
• Counting (for younger students)
• Constrution (if you build your own incubator; recommended)
  • Electricity
  • Thermostats
  • Wiring
  • Insulation
  • Carpentry
• Attitudes
  • Dealing with disapointment (when some do not survive, possibly all could not make it!)
  • Taking turns turning the eggs and keeping the log book
• Life cycles
• Embryology
• Fertilization
• Incubation
• Species/breed identification
• Parts of an egg
  • membranes
  • air cell
  • chalaza
  • albumen
  • embryo

And here I'll stop. For the creative minded this study can serve the specific delights of any child.