Chickens and Eggs Notebooking Pages and Anatomy Worksheets

Chickens are becoming increasingly popular as backyard pets. Your students can use these free chickens notebooking pages to write about the popular farm and backyard animal, the chicken. 

Students in 2nd to 8th grades can use these Chickens and Eggs printables as a part of their study about these mostly flightless birds that provide breakfast for millions of people everyday.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Chickens Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these farm yardbirds that have been domesticated all around the world.

Chickens Notebooking Pages

With these Chicken notebooking pages, your kids can write about the Gallus gallus domesticus, a round, short-winged bird that is often kept on farms for both eggs and meat.

Learn about their scientific name, write about their diet, define common chicken terms, and write interesting facts about chickens.

Or they can write facts about the life cycle of a chicken and the different names for males, females, and their young.

Topics included in these farm animal printables:

• Chickens
• Farming Chickens for Meat and Eggs
• Capon, Cock, Cockerel, or Rooster?
• Hen, Pullet, or Chick?
• Chicken Breeds
• Life Cycle of Chickens
• Chicken Embryo Development
• Chickens in History and Folklore
• Internal Anatomy of an Egg
• Internal Anatomy of a Chicken
• External Anatomy of a Chicken

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about chickens for handwriting practice.

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Chickens

Books List

Millie’s Chickens by Brenda Williams (also on Hoopla)

Chicken Said, “Cluck!” (My First I Can Read) by Judyann Ackerman Grant

Where Do Chicks Come From? (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Amy E. Sklansky

A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl by Robin Page

Chickens Don’t Fly: and other fun facts (Did You Know?) by Laura Lyn DiSiena

A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats by Melissa Caughey

Videos and Online Resources

Learn a chicken’s anatomy at Learn Poultry

Chickens and More has detailed, yet simple, information about a chicken’s anatomy.

To see the external parts of a chicken on a live bird, watch this video.

For a very in-depth look at how a chicken makes an egg, watch this Virtual Chicken video. Or for a simple explanation, watch this one instead.

Watch this incredible video from Smarter Everyday to see how a chicken develops instead of an egg.

Learn about the parts of an egg.

Here are details about a chicken’s life cycle.

Important Chicken terminology, like cockerel, pullet, and fryer.

To look up details on a specific chicken breed, use the chicken breed articles at Happy Chicken Coop.

To learn more about the history of chickens, watch this video from one of my favorite YouTubers, The History Guy. (Includes all of the idioms from the English language that are based upon chickens!)

Hands-on Activities

If you have access to fertilized eggs, learn how to candle an egg, to see of an embryo is developing.

If your kids have never seen a baby chick, head out to a farm supply or feed store. They often have chicks for sale that you can look at during the spring and summer months.

Kids love crafts; let them make this easy paper chicken craft.

If you have your own backyard chickens, make a toy for them.

Chickens Notebooking & Journal Printables

These notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.

These notebooking pages come in color graphics, full color photos, and in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs. There are 32 printable pages total.

Additionally, there are full color and watercolor Label the External Chicken Anatomy worksheets, full colorand watercolor Label the Internal Chicken Anatomy worksheet, and a Label the Internal Chicken Egg Anatomy worksheets included in this pack.

More Resources for Your Study of Farm Animals

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