DAY 21, EGG HATCHING DAY!!!

Wow, today has been long and exciting! We had one hatch and the kids went crazy, in a good way!  We had classes all over school viewing, plus a few at other schools in our school system. My own child was in PE when the chicken hatched, the PE teacher said she cried.  I asked her about it later and she said it was tears of joy.  While my class was at PE we had several classes take a "field trip" to my room to view the incubator and chick.  I had several great questions from students in other classes. This is why I love PBL's like this, not only the kids in the class learn other kids learn too!

I did have to change the web cam app I was using due to firewall issues.  I changed to ustream, so check out the link below to follow along and check back later to see how many hatch in all.

   

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cesbrooks

Chick Cam

TECHNOLOGY IS AWESOME!!!

We are on day 20 of the Chicken Haching PBL so we put up a web cam today.  You can actually view live feed by clicking on the link below.  We had some issues with the humidity over the weekend so we will see what effect that had.  My students are super excited and so am I.

We started with 38 eggs.  On Friday I candled the eggs using a homemade candler, thanks to my "egg eggspert".  I had 11 eggs that were basically empty so those were taken out.  We had 27 remaining that I was unsure about so they were all left in.  When we first candled on day 9 (would have done earlier but weekends aren't friendly) we had two eggs that we could actually see them moving!  It was so cool to see!  On day 11 we candled again and the class really got into it.  We had some great journaling that day.

Stay tuned to see the outcome and after the project is wrapped up I will post my PBL plan for you to download.


http://10.25.4.87/video.html