My partner Kaitlyn and I have come a long way since first deciding our project was going to have something to do with birds. Since this was such a vague, broad topic, we spent a lot of time narrowing down the ideas and thinking about what was not only practical but also interesting and enough to keep us going for months.
Our Passion Project is about watching chicks develop and seeing what it takes to take care of them and the process of raising them from eggs. We'd been working in the greenhouse with the eggs in the incubators long enough to add a little bit about plants to the observation, too. The first plant is a fern that we're raising and nurturing from being half-dead to see if it's even possible to do so, and the second is a clipping of a larger plant to see if it'll grow into its own large plant.
We've made a lot of progress so far. As for the chicks, we've rotated the eggs every day after school and have a list of important dates including when their hatching date is, when to stop rotating them, etc. Kaitlyn and I have done research pertaining to how they grow. The hatching came at a very convenient time, which was around today and yesterday, marking the halfway point of the passion project time. So far, two eggs have hatched and a few more are expected. When they were still eggs, we used an egg candle with Mr. Danucci to see which eggs were fertile, infertile, pulses, and more. We have also been watering and pruning the two plants.
We still need to collect a lot of information each week about how the chicks are growing and eating. We have been taking pictures and we need to make a presentation and add them together with data we've collected. The project is so far successful. We just need to make sure we stay on task and continue collecting good information.
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