Fifth graders at Essex Elementary took part in dissection day during their program with the CT Audubon Society. They spent part of the class picking apart and looking closely at something called owl ...

GRADE SCHOOL. BUT APPARENTLY IT WAS A VERY POPULAR EXPERIMENT OF PUTTING THROUGH THE OWL PELLETS AND SEARCHING FOR BONES TO GO TO IT. WE DID NOT DO THAT. OH, OKAY. BUT IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE THIS CLASS ...

In todays lesson, my students took a deep dive into food chains by dissecting real owl pellets. I walk them through how an owls gizzard separates bones, fur and feathers, and how those leftovers end ...

Patrick Gosciniak peeled open the silver foil to reveal his newest class project, a thumb-size chunk bearing an unsettling resemblance to a moldy chicken nugget. But when the 9-year-old Naperville ...

Last week's moment of nature video featured owls on Plum Island off the Massachusetts coast. I've written about owls several times in this space, including snow owls and short-eared owls. Owls have ...

I love revisiting topics students covered in elementary school again in high school. Before I knew better, we used to raise and release monarch butterflies in my Advanced Placement Environmental ...