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Mrs. Kugelman from Los Angeles, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Third Graders Want to Dissect Owl Pellets!

My students need large owl pellets for dissection to determine which animals the owl ate and regurgitated.

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My Students

I teach twenty-five happy and excited-to-learn third graders, and all day long they have fun growing and thinking, and trying their best. Our school is a wonderful, small multicultural school located in Los Angeles. Many of our students school qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and everyone receives free breakfast.

Our school specializes in integrating art and technology with our academic subjects.

My students learn best when I generate excitement for learning. Dissecting owl pellets on Halloween morning sounds like a great way to have a wonderfully creepy time looking for bones and teeth.

My Project

When an owl captures its prey, it swallows it whole. Then the owl's body uses the prey's protein, and the owl regurgitates the fur and bones of the prey. We have a tradition in my classroom where my students dissect their own owl pellet as part of the excitement before our annual Halloween Parade.

I have requested owl pellets which my students will dissect to have a hands-on STEM experience as they learn about the different animals the owl ate that are in the pellets.

There is nothing more compelling (and gross) then dissecting owl pellets! All morning long I hear, "Mrs. K, look, I found a skull!" or "Mrs. K, are those the teeth of a mouse the owl ate?" After all the bones have been sorted and categorized, my students get white glue and black paper so they can create a new animal by gluing the bones on the paper. I have seen 4 headed beasts and all sorts of wonderfully creative creatures! This is a great way to integrate art and science = STEAM!

Your help donating to this project means that this year's students can have a memorable hands-on science experience.

Mrs. Kugelman Dahlia Heights Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Los Angeles, CA View local requests 25 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Large Barn Owl Pellets (Pack of 15) Dissection Kit • Amazon Business $42.95 3 $128.85

Materials cost

$128.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $11.79

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$172.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.45

Total project goal

$203.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $203.02

7 Donors

-$128.51

Donations toward project cost

-$118.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.13

match offer

-$63.76

Match offer toward project cost

-$54.20

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.56

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.76

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 $0.00

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