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Boward County Public Schools

Hoot Activities

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
If you're looking for engaging, cross-curricular, inquiry-based activities and projects to support your class reading of Carl Hiaasen's Hoot, you've come to the right place!
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Captain Planet Foundation

Energy Flow in the Garden

For Teachers 4th Standards
How can you tell what an owl has eaten? Study the food chain and flow of energy in an ecosystem by dissecting an owl pellet and noting the bones found inside. Additionally, the lesson includes a game about consumers and producers with a...
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Scholastic

Ready to Research Owls

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Researching facts about owls can be a hoot for your class. Let them wisely collaborate on this writing project. The resource is the second part of three parts. It is best to use all three lessons in order. 
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Scholastic

Discussion and Dissection of an Owl Pellet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Young scientists get the chance to dissect pellets "owl" by themselves to determine the owls environment and nourishment. This is the third part of a three-part series. 
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Scholastic

Awesome Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Engaged learners discover how an owl beak works and how animals adapt to their environment. This task is part one of a three-part series. 
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Scholastic

Owl Moon Teaching Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Capture the engagement of young readers with this collection of activities based on Jane Yolen's book, Owl Moon. Following a shared reading of this children's story, the class explores the geography of the American Northeast, creates...
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Curated OER

Owls: Top of a Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Although written for middle schoolers, there is no reason that a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grader could not also learn about food chains through the dissection of owl pellets. After you introduce the topic, learners complete an owl research...
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Curated OER

Celebrate the Beauty of Wildlife

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Take advantage pupils' spring fever by learning about trees and wildlife.
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Curated OER

Exploring Owls

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What can young scientists discover from dissecting an owl pellet? Explore the owl food chain, beginning with an introduction to these predatory birds. Suggested strategies here include creating a podcast and purchasing a poster, however...
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Curated OER

Word Search: Birds of Prey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find names of various birds of prey in this word search. It is unusually colorful in that each of the birds that must be found are pictured on the worksheet in full color! Very good.
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Curated OER

Circle of Life

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Here is a well-designed science lesson that shows learners that everything that organisms do in ecosystems, including running, breathing, burrowing, growing, requires energy. After a thorough discussion of their own eating and drinking...
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Curated OER

Dissecting Owl Pellets

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students watch the teacher model the dissection then in pairs, they dissect an owl pellet and identify its contents. They record the data about its prey on a graph.
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Curated OER

Who's Hooting?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students in a special education class examine the nocturnal animals in their local area. Individually, they use the internet to research owls and share it with the class. To end the lesson, they use construction paper to make a...
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Curated OER

Mouse Roulette

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the food chain. To gain an understanding about the food web, students participate in a simulation where owlets are being fed by adult owls. Afterward, students examine the results of the role play to determine whether an...
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Curated OER

Wild, Wild Wetland Wildlife

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate biology by participating in a science experiment. In this dissection lesson, students conduct a nature field trip around their school grounds and identify animals, plants, tracks and waste. Students dissect an owl...
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Curated OER

Calling All Owls

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students research various types of owls.  In this owls lesson, students observe owls and discuss their characteristics.  Students go to an owl habitat and listen for the call of an owl. Students read The Owl in the Shower and debate the...
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Curated OER

Dissecting Owl Pellets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students dissect owl pellets. In this dissecting owl pellets lesson, students discuss birds of prey and make predictions about what they may find during the investigation. Students tease out skull and bones and try to make a complete...
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Curated OER

Owl Pellets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the role of owls in their ecosystem. In this food chain lesson, 6th graders illustrate an owl food chain, dissect an owl pellet, and analyze data. Students discuss what would happen to owls if there were an...
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Curated OER

Owls are a Hoot!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a food web based on the animals found inside owl pellets. For this owls lesson plan, students research and describe the characteristics of owls as well.
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Curated OER

Taking Apart Owl Pellets

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students dissect an owl pellet. For this rodent and bone structure lesson, students work in groups to take apart an owl pellet. Students separate all the tiny bones from the fur and use the bones to reconstruct the rodent on a tag board....
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Curated OER

Dissecting Owl Pellets

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore owl pellets. In this animal science lesson plan, students use owl pellet dissection kits to dissect one owl pellet. Students use a magnifying glass to identify the foods that the owl ate.
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Curated OER

Give a Hoot About Owls

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students research basic information about owls. They complete a class KWL chart, and conduct research on owls using the Internet and a variety of resource books. Next, they write an owl acrostic poem and a report using their research...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate the owl food chain. They discuss owl facts, explore various websites, dissect an owl pellet, create a picture of the owl food chain, read the book, "Owl Babies," and write an owl poem.
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Curated OER

Owl Pellets

For Teachers K - 8th
Students examine and discuss what owls eat and how their digestive system works. They dissect owl pellets, identify the bones found, and analyze and record the results.