The Traveling Naturalist: RAPTOR LAB!
Wed, Oct 18
|Croft State Park: SHELTER #1
Dissect real owl pellets! Explore museum-quality specimens, including skulls, furs and feathers.


Time & Location
Oct 18, 2023, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Croft State Park: SHELTER #1, 450 Croft State Park Rd, Spartanburg, SC 29302, USA
Guests
About the event
Hands-on Science Education Delivered right to YOU! We are very fortunate to be included in this year's schedule for the very popular, Traveling Naturalist!
This science and inquiry-based class is designed to give students a first-hand discovery of predator-prey relationships, exploring food webs, and identifying producers, consumers and decomposers. It is a fun introduction into the layered world of scientific dissection. It is an excellent precursor to setting expectations and attitudes toward more advanced dissections. An accompanying of skulls, fur, & feathers and museum-quality specimens will transform your classroom into a mini-museum, while students themselves become laboratory scientists performing a .hands-onmobile exhibitscientific dissection
Sterilized wild-caught barn are provided, along with tools and collection materials. Students will be able to take home the specimens they collected and often science and art teachers can use the specimens for future connection activities.owl pellets
Class vocabulary includes: carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, carrion eaters, producer, consumer,…