Owl Pellet Lesson Plan
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| Learner objectives: Student will be able to accurately
construct and identify a skeleton from the bones dissected from an owl
pellet and identify the animal. |
Materials: plastic container, owl pellet, tweezers,
paper towels, sandwich bags, construction paper, glue, instruction sheets,
rubric |
| Skills: Scientific method (taught earlier) Cooperative
learning, investigation, six inch voices, on task, eye contact |
Evaluation: Owl pellet rubric completed
by student and teacher. |
Lesson Sequence:
- Discuss: What is an owl pellet?
- Distribute and discuss instruction sheets
- Model the technique for dissecting a pellet.
- Discuss what they will be looking for.
- Emphasize that they need to work carefully.
- Encourage students to try matching the bones to the diagrams
that have been distributed and write their hypothesis about what animal
is in the pellet (on sheet provided)
- Distribute and discuss rubric
- Divide students into pairs and give job tasks
- Materials person pick up materials
- Students dissect owl pellets
- Teacher observes and notes techniques and social skills
- Teacher models technique for preparing bones, pellet
and debris for storage. Students store bones, pellet and debris for use
in remainder of lesson
- Encourage all students to wash hands carefully when finished.
- NOTE: This is a good stopping point if
you need to split the activity into two sessions
- Teacher will give verbal instructions for and will model
technique for gluing bones on construction paper and labeling the page.
- Inform students that they may negotiate with other groups
if they find that they are missing any bones. As an alternative they may
draw in the missing bones on the construction paper. Keep a record of the
bones that were obtained from or given to other groups.
- Teacher will review rubric with students
- Remind students of the importance of neatness
- Materials person retrieves project container containing
pellet and contents. also gets supplies
- Student will identify bones, negotiate with other students
for missing bones, glue bones onto construction paper and label the bones
- Students will use rubric to self-check to see if they
have completed all of the requirements students to Encourage students to
wash hands carefully when finished.
- Brainstorm ways to analyze and catagorize what students
find in the owl pellets
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