Breeding (snakes!) in the classroom...

[Christina]

This is still very much a newborn thought & I haven't really decided upon it yet, but do any teachers have any advice on breeding in the classroom? I'm really thinking that the egg-laying/incubation/hatching part is more of my focus, not the actual mating (c'mon, they're only 7-year old kids...I'm trying to let them keep a shred of their innocence yet!)...and I have ideas for a webpage with a webcam link. I'm looking into grants and other funding options for the equipment & stuff, but any recommendations at all would be great. How to deal with different situations (egg-binding, I guess...should I still take her home over the weekend or leave her in school?) -- for the kids and the snake, best equipment to have in the classroom (incubator recommendations...easy to handle & maintain, along with great for a classroom), ideas/lessons that I should have with the students prior to the whole process (I'm only a teacher, not omniscient!)...or, any advice at all about your first-time breeding experience...any info at all would be greatly appreciated.

(By the way...nothing is concrete for me, but I don't think that I'd be able to pull this off until fall 2008. Next year's class really appears to be a bunch of loonies, so would fall 2008 be bad timing?)

Thanks...
Christina

PS...And, for any hatchlings, I'm pretty sure that I would find homes for them via my local herp society's adoption program, or by then, I might be able to have a few other teachers interested in corns, too. This would definitely not be a project with the intention of making money...