Owls: Top of a food chain
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A lesson plan for Grade 5 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- science (biology and life science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This lesson will serve as visual proof that owls eat rodents and use this energy to survive. Owls excrete the parts of the rodent that they are unable to digest, leading students to infer that they are recycled in the soil. Using commercial owl pellets, students can try to identify the type of rodent eaten by the owl. Students are capable of creating a food chain based on prior knowledge: Owl-vole-grain or seeds-sun.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 5
- Goal 1: The learner will conduct investigations to build an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.
- Objective 1.02: Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:
- Producers.
- Consumers.
- Decomposers.
- Objective 1.05: Determine the interaction of organisms within an ecosystem.
- Objective 1.07: Determine how materials are recycled in nature.
- Objective 1.02: Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:
