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Virtual Owl Pellets and More!

After spending the week learning about the animal kingdom, the kindergarten students visited the lab last Friday to examine some interactive activities. I had several links available:

  • Variations – from BBC (categorizing pictures by bird, mammal, insect, or plant)
  • Walk, Swim, or Fly – from Harcourt School (place an animal in its proper environment)
  • Build a Habitat – from Switcheroo Zoo (design a habitat for an animal and see if it can survive)
  • Design an Animal – also from Switcheroo Zoo (create a unique animal, take its photo, then print with information about the new creature)
  • Build a Fish – from MARE: Marine Activities, Resources, & Education (Choose an ocean habitat, select body parts and colorations that you think will help your fish survive, then click the “Survive-O-Meter” to check its status.)
  • Make a Tide Pool –  from Monterey Bay Aquarium (choose animals that live in a tide pool) 
  • Build a Bug – from Scholastic (use the bug parts in Ms Frizzle’s lab to build a bug found in nature or create a new one)
  • Virtual Owl Pellets – from KidWings (owl pellet dissection without the mess)

These are all fun, educational resources but I especially like the Virtual Owl Pellets site. Some of the students had already done their real owl pellet dissection and the others will do that within the next few days, so this was the perfect site for the students to either review or prepare for their hands-on dissection. The funniest part of this website is when a mouse crawls across the screen, sits and looks around halfway across, then continues to saunter to the other side. I had told the students to be on the lookout for a surprise but didn’t tell them what it would be. It was hilarious listening to the squeals as the rodent appeared on the screens. One little girl kept pushing her chair back as if trying to distance herself from the mouse! I highly recommend this site!!