Owl Pellets

Can we discover what an owl eats by dissecting an owl pellet? Before Thanksgiving break Team Gibbas students had the opportunity to learn about an owl's food chain by dissecting owl pellets!  Students discovered that their owls had eaten a variety of things, including birds and mice.  Students were able to look at bones under a microscope and match the bones they found to a chart before attempting to draw a skeleton of one of the creatures that they found in the pellet.

Massachusetts Science Standards:

Energy and Living Things (Grades 3 - 5)

11. Describe how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within a food chain from producers (plants) to consumers to decomposers.