Lesson Plans
Use these egg-citing chicken and garden themed lesson plans to incorporate your Coops & Gardens Program into your classroom curriculum!
Lesson Plans
Bouncing Egg Experiment
Engage students with an exciting chemistry lesson that connects class chickens with laboratory science. Egg membranes can be difficult to see, even when viewing a chicken egg raw vs. hardboiled. This experiment use common household items to magically disintegrate the hard, calcium carbonate eggshell to reveal an elastic membrane of an egg.
DIY Activities
Make a DIY Solitary Bee House
How to Make a DIY Solitary Bee HouseMarch 1, 2024 | Molly SuttonLet's help pollinators by making bee houses! According to the USDA, “Some scientists estimate that one out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of animal pollinators like bees, butterflies...
15 Easy DIY Garden Markers
Whether you are new to gardening or are just like me and constantly forget which leaves are parsley versus which are cilantro, adding garden labels to your plants helps to not only beautify a garden, but also helps you remember what you have planted!
To help get you started, here are 15 easy and cheap DIY garden markers you can add to your own garden!
Spices and Herbs That Are Good for Chickens
If you raise backyard chickens, chances are you love to spoil them. We have such a fun time feeding our flock grapes and other treats, but did you know your “spoiling” of your flock can be beneficial to their health?
Adding small amounts of these herbs is a great way to boost your chickens’ overall health!
Christmas Tree Jungle Gym
The lights have been taken down, the Christmas music has stopped playing and all that is left is your tree. What to do with your amazing-smelling Douglas fir which brought you so much joy—glistening in your living room, decorated floor to ceiling in glittering lights...
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