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The Ecology Foundations classroom pack

Ecology Foundations · For classrooms

Classroom Essentials

Bring real science to the table: heat-sterilized barn owl pellets with the tools and teaching guide to run a full dissection, in three pellet sizes. No simulations, no plastic bones.

Heat-sterilizedNGSS-aligned3 pellet sizesShips in 24h

Pellet size

Pack One pellet per student

$29.99

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🎁Gifts in every box: stickers, posters and guides.

🦴Free bone charts for six prey animals. Download now

What’s inside

From the pouch to the pick to the preserved bones, everything you need is included.

01Barn owl pellets

Collected in the wild and professionally heat-treated for safe classroom use.

02Teaching booklet

The illustrated “Habitat, Habits & Prey” guide, with step-by-step excavation and how pellets form.

03Excavation tools

Precision pick and forceps for careful bone recovery and identification.

04Resealable pouch

Doubles as secure storage for recovered bones and findings.

What students actually do

Instead of memorizing food webs, learners uncover them.

Owls swallow their prey whole. Fur and bones are compressed into a pellet in the gizzard, then coughed up, creating a compact biological record of the owl’s last meal.

Inside each pellet, students may find skulls, jawbones, vertebrae, ribs and limb bones. Each fragment becomes data. Each bone becomes evidence. It’s anatomy, ecology and predator–prey relationships, hands-on and undeniable.

Designed for real learning

Look closer

Observation & classification

Comparative anatomy

Trophic relationships

NGSS-aligned practice

Ideal for

Every explorer

Classroom science

Homeschool lessons

Middle & high school biology

STEM enrichment

Independent study

Curious adults

Three sizes

Larger pellets usually hold more material and a wider variety of bones, which suits deeper analysis.

Experience	Pellet size	Packs
Economy · Small	1.0–1.49 in	20, 60 or 100 packs
Standard · Medium	1.5–2.49 in	10, 20 or 100 packs
Premium · Large	2.5 in and up	5, 10 or 30 packs

Pairs well with

Refills for next term, wall posters, rewards and the pellets that don’t follow the rules.

What teachers say

Reviews from classrooms, homeschoolers and nature centers.

Great activity for homeschool nature group.

I used the owl kit for my elementary age summer camp and they were worked out great. The kids got to see some cool skulls and bones and had fun trying to figure out what type of prey the owls were eating. Such a positive learning experience

I initially experienced an issue when the original order said it had been delivered but had not been. The process to fix this was easy and communication could not have been more kind! Once I got the order, everything we needed was included to make the class experiment go well. I used some of the online materials and directed parents to other online resources. Our school will definitely be ordering from here again!

My 9 year old loved this!

My child loved this. We found 3 skulls inside!

Fun

Bought these for my husband, very interesting.

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