Help me give my students owl pellets to create a science activity they will remember for the rest of their lives.
$552 goal
This project expired on December 4, 2024.
This project expired on December 4, 2024.
My Project
For many years, my students each brought in a couple of dollars and we've dissected owl pellets at the end of the year. However, as our school's free and reduced price lunch count has risen, the number of students able to afford their own pellet has dwindled. Over the years I have purchased dissection materials, teacher guides, and literature to use with this unit.
Our last chapter in science investigates food webs and by dissecting owl pellets, my students will have the opportunity to explore an owl's place in the food chain.
While doing this activity, students also practice the skills they have learned in my science class (conducting and presenting research, finding mass, measuring using the metric system, recording observations using accurate sketches, and classifying the bones) before they piece skeletons back together and mount them in a box with their research.
In order to complete this activity, we will need owl pellets. We'll also need tools to dissect the pellets (bamboo skewers to pull apart the pellets & trays to sort our findings) and boxes in order to display the items we find within the pellet. The mailing boxes (Corrugated Mailers) allow the students to create a mini-museum piece and design their own exhibit based on what is found in the pellet - a whole skeleton or pieces of multiple skeletons. Their creativity in this final part of the project always astounds me.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
100 students impacted
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