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.

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 and Program Options:

• $200 for in-school program (includes one incubator, one classroom kit, 12 hatching eggs. We drop off and set up at your school)
• $150 for in-school program if your site already has an incubator
• $140 Equipment Rental – Drop Off (We drop off and set up at your school. No in-school presentation. A mileage fee of $1/mile will apply to locations inside Rhode Island, but more than 40 miles from Casey Farm)
• $140 Equipment Rental – Pick Up (You pick up at the farm. No in-school presentation)
  • Schools from outside of Rhode Island MUST choose this option for equipment rental. There is no delivery available out of state.
• $50 Virtual Presentation (A farm educator presents an hour long virtual Project CHICK presentation)
• $20 one dozen fertile eggs
• $11 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 $15 a student.

Maximum 100 students per field trip.

Registration is by online request only – please fill out the 2023-2024 request form below. Once the program is at capacity, we will no longer take requests.

2023 – 2024 Project CHICK request form

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?