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The Chicken Life Cycle - Printable Chart

Egg, embryo, chick, and chicken are laid out as a circular life-cycle chart, paired with a name-and-date student page presenting the same four stages.
Grades
Preschool–2, Elementary
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Updated Nov 12, 2021

Subject
Science, Life Sciences, Animals
Topic
chicken, life cycle
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This download is a 1-page printable for your little learners to complete the life cycle of the chicken. There are 4 steps - egg, embryo, chick and chicken. There is a picture for each step of the life cycle and the name of the step is printed in dotted letters for students to trace.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name the four stages of the chicken life cycle in order: egg, embryo, chick, chicken

  • Recognize that a life cycle repeats by following the stages around a circular diagram

Teaching tips

  • Display the chart page during a spring or hatching unit and have students point through the four stages aloud, starting from the egg

  • Use the student page as an individual follow-up after whole-class work with the chart — the name and date header makes it easy to collect as a quick check

  • Close by asking what comes after the chicken stage; the circular layout lets students discover that the cycle starts over with a new egg

Skills covered

  • Life-cycle sequencing — students follow the four stages from egg through embryo and chick to chicken around a circular diagram.

  • Science vocabulary — the stage names egg, embryo, chick, and chicken are presented for young learners to read and use, including the academic term embryo.

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Core concepts

  • Chicken life cycle

  • Life cycles

  • Growth and change

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