Show various pictures of my stages of growth, from baby to boy, to teenager, to young man to today. Explain that people and all animals have growth cycles. Show the chart of the development cycles of a chicken embryo before and after it hatches and up to maturity. Embryo grows and develops into chick inside the egg. On day 21 the chick hatches.
Chick learns to walk and find food after it is first born to become strong enough to survive.
The chick grows and becomes strong enough to care for itself. The chick grows into an adult chicken. Read list of developments from Development Table that shows what forms on certain days of the 21-day cycle of development. Brainstorm with students to find some things about hatching chicks in their classroom. Instruct students to write a story about something they have noticed about the eggs or chicks during the 21 days of incubation or after the chicks were hatched.