Owl Pellets

What's For Dinner? 

How Does Energy Flow?

I wrote a grant that was funded by Donors Choose for owl pellets last September.  It was the perfect addition to my unit on Food Chains & Webs.  It was my first experience doing this activity and it was a huge success.  We spent three days dissecting, sorting, identifying, graphing and diagraming.  

I put the students in groups of 2.  The students worked together and were so engaged in the activity. We found mostly mice and a few shrews and moles.  Some pellets contained more than one skull.  Make sure you stock up on gloves, sanitizer and wipes.

We sorted the bones and created a class graph on the types we found.

One patient student tried to create a skeleton...she wants to be a paleontologist or archeologist.

  I think she is on the right track!!!

My students enjoyed this video...

warning the song will get stuck in your head!!!

Here is the company that I used, there are many places to order them:

All About Owl Pellets- fact sheet on Carolina.com

Pellets -  ordering info on Carolina.com

I have a subscription to Superteacher and I used their sheets for the lesson.

Here is a free resource that I used for owl adaptations.
 They also have info on Owl Pellets and Food Chains.
Barn Owl Trust

Animal Adaptations & Moby Max Give Away

Thank you Mr. Keating!!!!

Our fifth grade classes got to spend some time this week with our seventh grade life science teacher, Mr. Keating. The students loved visiting his lab and learning about adaptations of birds and other animals.  He shared his life experiences and expertise in his field.  The "hands-on" workshop allowed my students to see how beaks and other bird parts allow for survival.   He also shared other adaptations.  The children enjoyed his collection of live animals.  

I want to be a seventh grader and learn from this motivating teacher!  Thanks to Mrs. Lewis(teacher) and our school administration for allowing the fifth graders to tap into our school resources.

 

Here is a freebie that I created for my students to use in class.  I have photo cards from Creative Teaching Press(I found a link online of the cards) that I purchased. This sheet could be used with any photo/resource.  I found photo cards of beaks that would be another option.  I used Animal Planets Top 10 Adaptations to make my sample.

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Link to Free Cards 

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During science class, my two classes worked on research project about Biomes.  

I choose 6 major groups:

• Tundra
• Desert
• Rainforest
• Grasslands
• Forest
• Aquatic

Four groups for each:

• Climate and Location
• Plants and Adaptations
• Animals and Adaptations
• Human Impact 

They used their chrome books to work on their part of the project and shared their document in a file to collaborate.

Here are the websites that we used:

• Kids Discover Magazine
• Kids Do Ecology Biomes        
• Geography 4 Kids Biomes
• Kids Geography Biomes               
• Biomes Study Jams
• Ducksters Biomes for Kids
• Biomes
• What is a Biome? Bio Expedition
• Inch in a Pinch

I printed out their documents and used large posterboard trimmed down to make giant brochures.  They decorated and presented them in class as a group.  

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