How to Use This Guide

Best Practices for the Habitat, Habits, & Prey Guide

Our goal is to connect places of learning to students around the world. Our websites and print resources are available for your use in a wide variety of way and we have some suggestions on how to maximize their use! Here is the flight pattern we recommend to enhance your owl pellet dissection lab.

View the Videos. Before dissecting your barn owl pellets, have your students view our films, Kidwings Explores Barn Owls, beginning with Home Sweet Home and ending with Owl Rescue. These short videos are about 8 minutes in length and created to add context to your experience by introducing students to barn owl habitats, adaptations, and important visual connection.

Dissect a Virtual Pellet

with Sherlock Bones & Sir Whetson. Sherlock will guide your students through an online game that will introduce students to owl pellet dissection as this narrated game teaches the names of important prey anatomy. This important step is instrumental in preparing students for the lab with a genuine owl pellet. Other considerations include having your students report back to you via the “Share” options upon completion. You can click on Sherlock Bones or find the game in the iTunes and Android marketplaces.

Assign Chapters of the Habitats, Habits, & Prey

Guide. This guide is broken up into several chapters that make a great foundation for learning for students. Assigning 1 or 2 chapters per week leading up to the lab will enhance your dissection experience and provide important details about barn owls, why we study them, why it is important to working to save them, and builds an important base of understanding for other subjects you may enjoy down the road.

Other Terrific Resources. Our resource are not limited to OBDK. com! We publish articles regularly at WolfCenter.org/C3 on the subjects of Canines, Carnivores, and Conservation as well as a classroom, one that is in English and Spanish! In addition, you can find a nest full of resources at Kidwings.com that cover a wingspan of information about birds and other critters.