Before the end of this school year, third-grade students at Northwestern Elementary learned about life cycles in their science class.

Students in Jodi Chandler's classroom explained how a chicken hatches her eggs.

Chicken eggs were placed inside an incubator and a temperature of 99 to 100 degrees was set to keep the soon-to-be chicks warm.

The incubator was used because there was no hen in the clasroom to sit on the eggs.

The chick goes through different stages as it grows inside the egg and then hatch in three weeks.

Students used a flashlight to "candle" the eggs and watch movement inside the egg.

They saw a chick's eye move and watched it "swim" inside of the egg.

To prevent eggs shells from sticking to the hatching chick, the students sprayed the eggs with water.

A heat lamp is used on the chicks to "fluffed out" when they are born because they are wet. They remain in the incubator until they are able to walk on their own.

Students were even able to follow the progress of their eggs from home on the "chick vam" thanks to high school teacher Jeremy Smoyer, who set up a camera in the classroom.

The camera linked to the district website letting students watch the eggs as they progressed.

The chicks were delivered to a local farm where they would continue to grow into chickens.