Today we took out the owl pellet that we had bought on a homeschool shopping trip with my friend awhile back. I wanted to wait until we had finished our chapter on ecosystems which also covers adaptations.
We will also be working on chapters coming up that have to do with anatomy, so it was a perfect linking exercise into that as well.
The owl pellet itself is an ecosystem for smaller insects like a moth - interesting! The pellet had a guaranteed entire skeleton of a starling bird inside.
The following is a photo-journal experience of the kids opening up the pellet and finding the feathers and the bones of the starling.
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| Starling skull |
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| Brother trying to determine a bone part. |
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| Brother sketching the bird claw and making observations... |
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| Piecing the skull and vertebrae together with the hip bone. |
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