Primary students are studying the human body, turning their attention to bones. Works on the shelf include a life-size skeleton puzzle, a layered human body puzzle, and animal bones. Kindergarteners are digging deeper, literally! They are dissecting owl pellets, the compact mass of indigestible materials that owl’s regurgitate. Owl pellets contain fur, feathers, teeth, and bones of smaller animals. Kindergarteners match the contents of the pellet to a control chart to identify what they discovered in the owl pellet. Note that bones found in nature should always cleaned and sterilized before handling.
