My students need a classroom set of owl pellets, so they will understand the predator/prey relationship instead of just reading about it in a book or watching a video.
My students live in an inner city area in North Carolina. Some are homeless, and most of my class qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Our school is a Title I school, and most of my students have never visited an aquarium or zoo, but they think they must be like a pet shop.
So, what they will learn in our life science unit will come from textbooks unless you support this project and help me bring hands-on activities like the owl pellets to show the prey/predator relationship into my classroom to help engage and educate my students.
We learn best when we have a basic understanding with connections to what we are being taught. There is a huge difference in reading about prey/predators and actually opening an owl pellet, matching the bones and determining what the owl has been eating. So, please help me supply my class with this wonderful hands-on learning activity so they may observe, record, and document what they really witness as they see what the predator eats.
My Project
Since my students live in the inner city they don't have the opportunities to witness nature in a real world setting. However, with your generous support my students will actually be able to see the predator/prey relationship and understand why owls are so important to our environment. My students will also benefit from the owl pellets because they will allow my students to see the life cycle. Few of my students have ever seen a real owl, and they will be amazed as they reconstruct the bones and determine what the owls have eaten. So, with your help my budding scientists will have a strong knowledge and understanding because they will be actually engaged not reading about an abstract idea.
My students are like sponges!
They are eager to learn, love to be engaged and have tremendous potential! With your support my students will leave my classroom with an advanced knowledge of the predator/prey relationship and they won't forget what they learned because it was a engaging hands-on lesson that explained the importance of the food chain! Please help this lesson become a reality by supporting this project!
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