The Task :

Your official assignement, chick detectives, is to find out all you can about chicks!  Start your investigation by listening  to stories about chicks. You must retrieve the clues  to your assignment by recruiting your classmates in song and story.  How many songs and stories to you know about chicks?  Your mission can only be completed by creating a sequence book about a chick's life and visiting websites on chicks .  Can you create and write your own story about figured out about chicks?  You must use a checklist to make sure you have all the facts.

The Process

You'll receive your instructions from your teacher.  So listen  carefully!  Your first clue is in the story What's Inside the Egg? by Garelick M.  Your teacher will read  you the story.  Once you have started the journey you'll find your next clue in the sing along "I'm a Little Chick" (sung to "I'm a Little Teapot") in English and "Los Pollitos" in Spanish. Now you have 2 clues!  Next your teacher will guide the class through a chick hatching video on the Internet.  When the chick hatched, was it wet or dry?  Now that you have 3 clues you can make your own chick hatching sequence book. Congratulations!  You have successfully completed this phase of the investigation.  You now have enough information to draw and write your own incredible story about chicks. Use your imagination and clues to make your story either fiction or non-fiction.  Your chance to finish your mission is in your last activity.  You are to explore marked websites that will take you into the world of chicks on the Internet.

Resources
List of  Websites

•      Chickscope 
•     Babychicks
•     MSI-Chick Hatchery
•     Out of the Box

Evaluation
Checklist for Your Mission
 

Conclusion
Congratulations!!! You have worked very hard to complete this web Quest.  In doing the Web Quest you have learned a lot about chicks but most of all, you have worked cooperatively with your classmates to complete your investigation.  Now you can say," I am a Chick Detective."

Reflection

How did you like this mission?
Would you visit the websites again?
Tell me something you remember about chicks?

Extensions

Students will be encouraged to observe and record the actual hatching and development of several chick eggs that are incubating in the classroom.  Children will continue to read more literature about chicks and their development, their habitat and their basic needs.  Children will also do population study using graphs and measurements when the chicks hatch.

Teacher Notes
Thank you for allowing your students to visit and navigate this Web Quest.  Each assignment follows easily to the next or you may use the links to emphasize the life cycle of the chick or the hatching process.

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