This package comes with 5 owl pellets, approximately 1 1/2" long. As the other reviewer mentioned, they are just wrapped in foil and sent in an ordinary manila padded envelope without any directions. I was able to find instructional videos and directions by doing a search online and even a bone identification chart, which helped my kids (ages 9 and 6) identify their findings. Basically, you carefully pull apart the pellets on a piece of white paper and very gently pull out the bones, teeth, etc. with your fingers or tweezers. Our pellets contained many bones and several skulls, much to the kids' delight. Our bone chart led us to believe that our owls consumed shrews. This project is a good lesson in patience; it kept us entertained for about 30 minutes. They got to keep their "findings" in a plastic baggie. Be sure to wash hands thoroughly after handling the pellets.
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I teach 5th grade science, and for a end of the year activity I decided to purchase owl pellets and allow my students to dissect them and identify the bones. Each owl pellet carries a surprising amount of bones to identify and pretty much every one of them that my kids dissected contained at least one skull, ribs, jaws, hips, etc. Once taken out of the pellet itself, students can then work in groups to identify the type of animal that their owl had eaten.
One thing that you should know before you buy these is that your package does not come with a bone identification chart. However, this is not really a problem because you can download them from countless internet sites for free. All in all, this is a perfect idea for a lesson plan and can work well for discussing ecosystems, habitats, animal diversity, food webs, etc. Kids will love doing this and it is something that they will always remember.
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Great teaching tool. Kids loved it and I'll order more for next years agenda. Really easily identifiable bones and other matter and not near as yucky as I thought it would be.
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The seller calims that these are packed in a "heated sealed poly bag". They weren't for me. There were five loose tinfoil balls rolling around in the cardboard box in which they came. So if they lied about that, then how can we just take their word for it that the pellets are "professionally treated" as they claim? The preprinted info sheet that comes with the product has no company info at all and seems to just be something the sellers got from a zoo or nature conservancy. That paperwork claims the pellets are autoclaved, but since it does not (in any way) seem to be the actual sellers' paperwork AND seeing that the seller did not package the items the way they claim to on the Amazon product page, I have little faith that this is true. We did enjoy the pellets, so something is telling me that I can't give this review just one star. However I can't see giving them more than that between the mispackaging and doubts about whether they were "professionally treated".
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My 4th grade students loved the owl pellets, lots of bones and skulls found. I will order them again next year.
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