This past fall my fourth-grade students were awarded a science grant from the Springfield Public Schools Foundation. The Foundation offers a variety of grants to District 186 teachers.
This grant allowed us to purchase enough materials for both fourth-grade classes to dissect and learn about owl pellets. It was a great opportunity for young students to learn about basic science dissection. Each student was able to reconstruct their skeleton that came from inside the owl pellet. We shared this with families at our Math and Science night.
We would like to thank the Foundation for this opportunity. We couldn’t have done it without them! We invite you to visit our classroom website, http://www.sps186.org/teachers/sbruns/?p=2137&b=32&i=736964, to see this project.
Shellie Brunsman
Fourth-grade teacher at Wilcox Elementary School