Well, the kids just spent the entire morning dissecting owl pellets. It turned out much better than I expected it to, and they weren't nearly as grossed out as what figured they would be. I really wish I had my camera here to take some pictures of it. They even glued the bones onto black paper and labeled it with the proper names of each bone.
It really is a neat project, especially if you have some patience. In a world full of high-speed internet text messaging, patience is something of a lost art. Luckily at least a few of the kids in here still have some. At best, they looked like little forensic scientists (okay, maybe "little" is the wrong word--youthful, maybe?). At worst, they at least had a great time digging through the bone piles.
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