materials

Per student

Class

Container or basket

2

Hatching chicken pictures

5

Live chicken (optional)

1

Hardboiled egg

1

Girl doll

1

Dry grass

1

Chicken and her egg pictures

1

Toy chicken

1

Variety of real eggs

1

Snake laying eggs picture

1

Robin and her nest picture

1

Ostrich and her nest picture

1

Pictures of animals hatching

1

Hollow plastic eggs

1

10

Small toy animal that hatches and can fit in egg

1

Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller

1

6” white paper plates

6

Two sided graphing paper

Labels (3x3 post its or paper squares

6

Small trays

7

Live box turtle

1

Large toy turtle

1

Small toy turtle

2

Ping pong or Styrofoam balls

2

Toy dog

1

Tub (dishpan) filled with sand

2

Paper grocery bag

2

Turtle laying eggs poster

1

Colored pictures of turtles and their eggs

5

Strawberries

2

Quartered tomato

1

Live fish in bowl

1

Container fish food

1

Fish laying eggs poster

1

Bunch of pond plants

1

Tub (dishpan) filled with water

1

Plastic animals that hatch on land, small enough to fit in eggs

8

Plastic animals that hatch in water small enough to fit in egg

8

Watercolor set

Watercolor brush

Small container real, natural color salmon eggs

1

Ball potters clay

1

3” square blocks

5

1” square blocks

5

Collection of objects that roll

1

Collection of objects that don’t roll

1

Collection of objects that roll in circles

1

1

Containers for objects

1

12” sq. cardboard boxes

5

Murre and her eggs poster

1

Pear-shaped murre “egg”

1

Black marker

1

White sheet

1

Blue sheet

1

Plastic fish

6