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Charter Students Play Chicken!
For third graders at Cherokee Charter Academy in Canton, it's the year of the chicken.
At the heart of this project-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) initiative are six chickens who've taken up residence in a new chicken coop on campus that the kids helped design and construct. Even before the birds arrived, students were learning all about their fowl friends including the chicken life cycle, the many different chicken breeds and the egg incubation & hatching process. Since the birds moved in, the third graders are taking care of the chickens and collecting their eggs (turning them 3 times a day and monitoring the temperature of their incubator). The most fun part? Watching eggs hatch in their classroom and comparing the taste of fresh eggs to those bought at the store.
First photo: Allison Baird, Summer Smiley, Natalie Briggs and Spencer Geist
Second photo: Allison Baird, Lilith Affolder, Conner McCoy, Max Fuhrman, Van Williams, Ella Boraks, and Ethan Henry
