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This is not Candling<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Before the orders to stay at home, Tami Lence, a first-grade teacher at Silver Rail Elementary, along with her co-teachers Shalom Davis and Elizabeth Schneider, had a whole spring project planned, but they’ve had to simplify it. And yet even with modifications, it is an engaging unit that I wanted to share with you. It centers around 12 eggs that Tami is incubating at her house. Tami has been creating videos that demonstrate how the eggs are changing each day. In the video, she does what is called “candling”. I wasn’t sure what candling was until I watched her actually do it. So if you don’t know what candling is either, then you’re going to need to watch the videos below. It’s really fascinating! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in the video, you see Tami candling the eggs and she also reads excerpts from the book, Where Do Chicks Come From<\/em> by Amy Sklansky. Next, she incorporates pieces of The Chick Embryo Development<\/a> YouTube video by Poultry Hub Australia. You’ll be impressed to know that she contacted Poultry Hub Australia to get permission to include pieces of their video within her own. It’s true that it never hurts to ask! After she’s shown all the different aspects of that certain stage the egg is in, she demonstrates how to journal about the egg and creates a diagram of it. The students do their own journals at home and turn them in on SeeSaw. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n