There was great excitement in our room today during our science class. Wearing gloves and using small tweezers just like scientists, the students began dissecting owl pellets. At first everyone was a little skeptical, but soon there were cries of, “There’s teeth and a skull in here!” and the real scientific work and fun began.
The owl pellets (sanitized of course for school use) is a fairly new activity for our ecosystems unit. During these investigations, the children explore food chains and webs by dissecting owl pellets to determine the contents. This work must be done carefully with tweezers and toothpicks. Next week the students will begin matching some of the bones they have extracted to an ID sheet and will be piecing them carefully together to form as much of the skeleton as possible.
