Learn about life cycles with baby chicks

At Casey Farm and Your Site

Students learn about bird life cycles while helping to preserve the endangered Dominique chicken breed, which is raised at Casey Farm.

A farm educator visits the classroom with everything needed to incubate a clutch of eggs, sets up the equipment, and engages students in a hands-on presentation about Dominique chickens and eggs. Twenty-one days later, as students observe, the chicks hatch. Baby chicks are returned to Casey Farm, where a few weeks later students visit them and learn about free-range chickens on one of the oldest farms in Rhode Island.

Project Chick classroom visits and incubators are fully booked for 2022. Registration requests for 2023 will open in the fall. Spring field trips are still available. See below for more information and call 401-237-7472 to book.

Program Details

Available weekdays, late February through mid-May, July, and August, by appointment, for PreK – Grade 12. Includes a one-hour classroom visit or virtual program, two-hour field trip, and three weeks of incubation.

Cost:

• $180 for in-school program (includes one incubator, one classroom kit, 12 hatching eggs. We drop off and set up at your school)
• $140 for in-school program if your site already has an incubator
• New! Due to potential COVID-19 restrictions in the 2021-2022 school year, we are offering two new ways to participate in the program. Due to a limited amount of incubators and eggs, you must use the online form for registration.
  $130 Equipment Rental (We drop off and set up at your school. No in-school presentation)
  $80 Equipment Rental (You pick up at the farm. No in-school presentation)
• For schools outside of Rhode Island, mileage is charged $1/mile
• $10 per student for field trip
• Combine a Project CHICK field trip with one of our other programs and enjoy a full day at Casey Farm with your own picnic lunch for only $13 a student.

Maximum 100 students per field trip. Registration is by online request only. Please see link above.

Also Available: Do you have your own incubator and hatching eggs, but would love a way to start your program off with a bang? Or are you in charge of after-school or library programming for children and looking for something a bit different? A Casey Farm educator can present a slide show on chicken development and behavior. This is followed by a hands-on display of various bird eggs and a visit from one of the farm’s Dominique chickens, a rare breed we are actively conserving. Available weekdays and Saturdays, spring only. Lasts one hour. Grades K – 8. Classroom, auditorium, or library program available. $110 per program ($100 per library program).

Type of Program: Field Trips, Programs to Go

Related Topics: Farming

Curriculum Links

Project CHICK connects to the Common Core State

Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy and, where applicable, Mathematics adopted in Rhode

Island in 2010, as follows (page numbers from Common Core documents linked below):

Kindergarten

• Speaking and Listening 3, 6 (p. 23)

Grade 1

• Speaking and Listening 3, 4, 6 (p. 23)

CCSS for Mathematics

• Measurement and Data 4 (p. 16)

Grade 2

• Speaking and Listening 2, 3, 4, 6 (p. 23)

Grades 3 and 4

• Speaking and Listening 2, 3, 4, 6 (p. 24)

Grade 5

• Writing 4 (p. 21)

• Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (p. 24)

Grades 6 – 8

• Writing 4 (p. 43)

• Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (p. 49)

View full Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy

View full Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

Questions?