{"id":68,"date":"2014-01-03T00:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-01-03T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T21:57:07","slug":"teaching-idea-owl-pellet-dissection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Idea &#8211; Owl Pellet Dissection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69\" alt=\"updated\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg 560w, https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated-300x45.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a fun activity to dissect owl pellets &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never done it before, you really should give it a try, you can learn a lot about owls and what they eat. Here&#8217;s a few pictures from a ScienceMan grade 7 owl pellet lab:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_pellet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70\" alt=\"owl_pellet\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_pellet.png\" width=\"344\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_pellet.png 344w, https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_pellet-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As long as you are using owl pellets from biological supply companies, this activity is perfectly safe &#8211; the owl pellets are fumigated so as to eliminate any chance of disease. The pellets are relatively cheap, and up to 3 students can share a pellet, so it&#8217;s not only fun, but it&#8217;s affordable as well.<\/p>\n<p>Owl pellets from scientific supply companies can have variable contents depending on what the owls are fed. It&#8217;s actually kind of difficult finding reliable bone guides on the web, but you might start with this one from Carolina supply &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolina.com\/teacher-resources\/Interactive\/owl-pellet-interactive-database\/tr10836.tr?s_cid=url_owls\/guide\/Owl_Pellet_Bone_Chart_grid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Owl Pellet Interactive Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following pictures are from a ScienceMan grade 7 class&#8230; they might just help you identify bones (hopefully we got them all right!) We&#8217;re pretty sure the bones were from the most common of the Owl&#8217;s &#8220;victims&#8221; the pocket gopher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_bones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71\" alt=\"owl_bones\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/owl_bones.png\" width=\"443\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some great owl and owl pellet lab and information sites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidwings.com\/owlpellets\">Kidwings Owl Pellet Dissections<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; A good virtual dissection &#8211; NEW AND IMPROVED! The site provides a very impressive and fun Flash-based virtual dissection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlpages.com\/\">OwlPages<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Wow! This page is a hoot! (Sorry, I couldn&#8217;t resist) An amazing amount of owl information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a fun activity to dissect owl pellets &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never done it before, you really should give it a try, you can learn a lot about owls and what they eat. Here&#8217;s a few pictures from a ScienceMan grade 7 owl pellet lab: As long as you are using owl pellets from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching_ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}