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For the Ecology Unit in Science we learned about how food chains works and ecosystem relationships. How energy transfers between producers, primary, secondary, tracheary and the importance of each animal in their ecosystem. At the end of the unit we did this project on animals in danger, researching their importance and making a new law to save them.

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My presentation was on sea otters, I put the research on canva and since we weren’t aloud any sentences in the presentations I just added a whole bunch of pictures to go with the notes.

I think for the future presentations and speaking in front of the class, I’ll try to be less jittery and be more calm so that my voice is clearer.

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The owl pellet dissection was a mini 3 day work study of searching, cleaning and assembling tiny animal bones that owls once ate. It surprising me how many bone parts we found in our pellet. We found around 6 pelvis’ multiple fibula, tibia, plus 2 jaws.

Once we got the bones washed and cleaned we found it quite challenging to figure out where and how to place some bones and how we could fill in some parts we don’t have. We had to try to match it up the best we could and ended up with what I think is a vole – because of it’s skull shape.

I learned that many of these owl pellets are full of tiny rodents (even small rabbits). Since owls are nocturnal they hunt for food during night time, and rodents happen to be more active throughout the night, making them nice prey. The activity closely connects to our biology unit, starting with learning basic cell functions -> organ functions + frog dissection -> learning the skeletal structure that holds all of these together in place.

(I tried my best to label it)