{"id":490561,"date":"2010-03-30T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2585"},"modified":"2010-03-30T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:55:31","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-the-life-cycle-of-an-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490561","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children\u2019s Literature: The Life Cycle of an Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the book series Learning About Life Cycles, The Life Cycle of an Owl <\/a>written by Ruth Thomson explains the entire life cycle of a barn owl.\u00a0 The book has real life pictures and is does an amazing job of portraying life in the wild for the barn owl.\u00a0 The book starts out with\u00a0the places\u00a0owls live and what they eat.\u00a0 Characteristics of an owl is described by stating that<\/p>\n

“It has very good eyesight and hearing.\u00a0 It flies silently and pounces on animals with its feet.\u00a0 It usually swallows them whole.”<\/p>\n

Since this book is only about barn owls all of the physical features are described.\u00a0 The book starts the life cycle with “finding a mate”.\u00a0 This is usually done\u00a0durning\u00a0the spring season; males and females can often be seen flying together while making a loud screeching sound.\u00a0 The book shows and explains how\u00a0the mother\u00a0owl lays eggs and cares for her owlets.\u00a0 The father keeps both the mother and the owlets alive with providing food. The book lists the different stages the owlets go through until adulthood.\u00a0 Pictures are provided with each stage.\u00a0 The author ends the book with\u00a0displaying the owl life cycle that was described\u00a0throughout the book for a better visual understanding.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections:<\/p>\n

This would be a great book for teachers teaching about animal life cycles and habitats (SOL 2.4a & 2.5b).\u00a0 The book explains\u00a0the life\u00a0cycle of an owlet as it grows and matures into an\u00a0owl at\u00a0the elementary age school\u00a0level. The book has outstanding pictures that are detailed and not graphic for young children.\u00a0 The book\u00a0explains the\u00a0habitat surroundings needed for the barn owl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional Resources:<\/p>\n

Exploring the Southwest Desert USA<\/a> has a great web-site for\u00a0anyone that would like to learn about the barn owl.\u00a0 The range, habitat, description, habits and the owl’s life cycle are all explained in this web-site.\u00a0 This could be used as an additional resource for a teacher that is teaching a lesson plan on the barn owl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teachers can handout a coloring page<\/a>\u00a0for students to color as they learn about the barn owl.\u00a0 Students have room to draw the owl’s habitat.\u00a0 The students can also list some of the facts that they learned about the barn owl around their artwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teachers and students can watch a real barn owl live on the internet! Teachers will need to click on the link to watch Molly the barn owl <\/a>in the classroom.\u00a0 This is a free web-site.<\/p>\n

Eastside Audubon has\u00a0listed a lesson plan<\/a> for teachers who will be teaching about owls.\u00a0 The lesson plan is geared for students grades 3-6 (adaptions can be made for younger students).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Book: The Life Cycle of an Owl
\n<\/a>Author: Ruth Thomson<\/a>
\nIllustrator: N\/A
\nPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
\nPublication Date: 2009
\nPages: 24
\nGrade Range: 2-5
\nISBN: 1-4358-2833-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the book series Learning About Life Cycles, The Life Cycle of an Owl written by Ruth Thomson explains the entire life cycle of a barn owl.\u00a0 The book has real life pictures and is does an amazing job of portraying life in the wild for the barn owl.\u00a0 The book starts out with\u00a0the places\u00a0owls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}