This week we are working through the heat. Students are practicing adding and subtracting fractions and also being introduced to coordinate grids with a great computer game called Game Over Gopher. They already love it and are learning quickly how to evaluate coordinates. The link to the game is Game Over Gopher.
Students were introduced to the food chain of an owl this week. Students are currently dissecting an owl pellet. Lots of gross, laughing, and just pure delight as they used toothpicks and their hands to find bones of animals that their owl had eaten and regurgitated. Here is a video from a site similar tow what they are doing in class. I will add some pictures tomorrow. They had time yesterday to find bones and tomorrow they will put the bones together to see what type of animal they found such as a vole or mole. We will also collect data on how many skulls the two classes have found in the ten
total pellets.
By the end of this lesson they will be able to answer:
How many different kinds of animals did you find evidence of in the pellet?
How many animals were there in total?
They will also be able to conclude about the eating habits of the owl that made their pellet.
A food chain shows the relationship between producers (plants) and consumers (animals that eat the plants or that eat other animals). Here are some simple relationships between the producers and consumers that are involved in a Barn owl's diet.
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