Help me give my students the opportunity to dissect an owl pellet to understand food webs and ecosystems. This dissection is common throughout Ohio, but my school cannot give each student their own pellet like these items do.
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Throughout the state of Ohio, students learn about ecosystems and food webs as fifth graders. Some districts give students the opportunity to dissect owl pellets to show the interdependence of organisms. An owl pellet is the regurgitated elements of what an owl has eaten that the owl cannot digest.
Yup, I am asking you to help me give my students a barfed-up bit of nature.
Let me tell you, this FASCINATES fifth graders. As these egg shaped, brown blobs are dissected, students (hopefully) discover the bones of a mouse, a snake, a rat, or other small creatures that were once an owl's dinner.
The information gleaned about skeletons, digestion, carnivores, and nature in general cannot be fully articulated here. This type of experience can open a world of science to students. Most of my students have been to a zoo. Some have been to a science center. None of them have dug around in dried barf hoping to find a skull.
Please help support this project to allow my class to learn about ecosystems and food webs in the same way their like aged peers do in other, more affluent, districts. This will be a day they will not forget.
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