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Screech Owl Activity Directions: Use the links to gather facts so you can answer the questions. Printer version |
Eastern Screech-Owl Otus asio 1 | Eastern Screech Owl 2 | Western screech-owl Otus kennicottii | The Owl Pages
1. Vocabulary: Use each word to write a sentence about screech owls.
nocturnal
trill
cavity
talons
owlet
pellet
predator
feathers
2. "People can often learn about things around them by just observing those things carefully, but sometimes they can learn more by doing something to the things and noting what happens. Describing things as accurately as possible is important in science because it enables people to compare their observations with those of others. Tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without their help."1 Scientists collect data when they study animals. Sometimes this data is a measurement like the length of a body part. |
Check out the photos in Chris' Eastern Screech Owl Nest Box Cam
a. List at least 5 observations that a scientist could make of an owl and its nest.
b. Quantitative data is observations that can be measured. Write a Q next to the observations listed above that are quantitative.
An ornithologist is a scientist who studies birds.
3. Would screech owls live in your neighborhood? Consider the range and the habitat to decide.
4. Have you ever heard the whinny or the trill of a screech owl in the night?
5. The owls nest in a cavity of a sycamore tree.
Do sycamore trees grow in your community?
6. The author writes, "Up in the sycamore tree 14 lemon moons blink. The screech owl family is safe."
How many owls are in the family? (Do the math.)
7. The screech owls eat many different animals. Select one.
Write 5 facts about screech owls or one of the screech owl's prey. (Utilize your online research skills.)
crayfish, frog, beetles, moth, grasshopper, cricket, meadow vole, earthworm, garter snake, deer mouse, spider
8. Is Screech Owl at Midnight Hollow by C Drew Lamm an example of narrative, persuasive or informative writing?
9. Investigate - Which owls are likely to be found in or near your community?
Extras:
Color the Screech Owl. | Learn to Draw an Owl - try it using your computer draw tools.
Owl information | Nest Internet Hunt | Bird Activity | Egg facts Internet Hunt
Owl Pellet video on TeacherTube.comy
Pure Poetry - add a stanza to Over in the Meadow
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell | OwlCam - nest box barred owls
Learn lots more about Owls at Owling.com
Do this Dichotomous Key activity for two of the species. Then try your hand at one for Screech Owls.
There's An Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George Look for it in your library.
The Northern Spotted Owl Debate
Harness your Know How
Your class has decided to attract an owl to your school's property.
Use the resources in The Owl Pages site, as well as information you've learned in this hunt, to create a proposal for your principal. Include the whys and wherefores in your proposal. Consider: equipment, concerns/fears, location, value to the school. Jazz it up with some symbology to support the idea of owls at schools.
1 Science NetLinks Benchmark 1- Nature of science - How science works
posted 1/2008 by Cindy O'Hora
Released to public domain in honor of Dr. John Edward Farr, an extraordinary man
Save a tree use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the wp document in an easily read, contrasting color or font. (No yellow, no Symbols, 
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font) Please do not put the answer documents on the web because they will show up in a search engine, making them like the odd question answers in the back of the math text. Or perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it. MYO Printed answer sheet.