Today has been like Christmas! Our new friend, Val, came in the mail today! Val is a Leopard Gecko. Leopard geckos are a crepuscular ground-dwelling lizard naturally found in the deserts of Asia and throughout Pakistan, to parts of northern India. We also received our fertile chicken eggs and will begin the incubation process once our incubator temperature regulates. Tomorrow, we will read an article about hatching eggs in incubators. They will learn that incubators: · keep eggs warm and moist · the temperature must be monitored · eggs must be rotated (I have an automatic egg turner) · chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch · and although incubators are mostly used for birds, they can also be used to hatch reptile eggs. Once we place the eggs, we will monitor the eggs, the incubator temperature, and the water level for the next 21 days and anticipate their hatching around March 10th. I’m very excited to share my life cycle kit and the QR Reader display for the stages of development in the chicken life cycle. I have also put out my class set of chicken books that I will allow them to read if they finish classwork early. Students will get to use the iPads to scan the QR codes and see actual photos of chicken development according to the day of incubation. You wouldn’t believe how much they LOVE scanning codes!
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