Students will complete the Owl Pellet Dissection lab today by creating a bone identification chart on construction paper. They will glue the bones down and properly label the name of the bone and the organism it came from. Be sure and give your chart a title, and of course write the names of the students in your group on it. You may use your bone identification handout, the internet and of course your rubric to successfully complete the project. One you have completed your bone chart we can walk around the classroom in a gallery walk and check out everyone's work. Them, you will write a half age reflection about the lab based on the following question: How does the evidence you collected from your owl pellet dissection (the types and number of bones identified) support conclusions about the owl’s diet and its role in the ecosystem? Use specific examples from your bone identification chart and observations from the gallery walk to explain your reasoning and reflect on what this investigation helped you understand about predator–prey relationships.
