The golden egg: curricular potential of a backyard chicken coop

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dc.contributor.authorKildaw, Sharlon
dc.contributor.supervisorPelton, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-28T19:10:57Z
dc.date.available2015-04-28T19:10:57Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-04-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education M.Ed.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project examines the multi-dimensional applications of building a chicken coop. Interest in raising chickens and urban backyard coops have increased recently for a variety of identified reasons including: the desire to be closer to our food source, to reduce ecological footprint, backyard to table access of high-quality nutritious eggs, developing empathy through animal husbandry, and benefits of nature encounters and pet ownership. Connecting this project to a classroom or school has immense potential to address many learning outcomes from almost any subject area or grade level. It also creates opportunities for building relationships between classes or extensions within environmental education. This is a hands-on project that appeals to a wide variety of learners, including girls, minority, and the typically non-academic or motivated students. This project provides a detailed look at the current academic research in Science, Technology, Society, and Environmental (STSE), nature connection, and authentic learning. Viewed through the theoretical lens of the everyday expertise and ecology theory, the importance of a learner’s environment are identified as being integral to the learning process.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6033
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectbackyard chicken coopen_US
dc.subjectSTSEen_US
dc.subjectpet ownershipen_US
dc.subject(re)connection to natureen_US
dc.subjectauthentic learningen_US
dc.titleThe golden egg: curricular potential of a backyard chicken coopen_US
dc.typeprojecten_US

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