The
class will start out in large group and read "What's
Happened to My Nighttime Melodies?" together.
What
Happened to My Nighttime Melodies?
Word
Format for Printing
What
a week it's been. First there was panic as the stories
poured
in about the coming hurricane. Dad kept
saying, “I think that we should stay. We’ve
had so many false alarms and our house is constructed
of cement block, anyway.” Mom disagreed vehemently. “Safety
first, we need to think of the kids,” she said.
We proceeded to frantically board windows, pack things
and put them away in preparation for the storm. Although
I've lived in southern Florida all my life, it never
gets any easier when hurricane season comes. We were
off to my Grandparents home in northern Florida to
wait out the storm.
The hurricane swept through our town but we were
lucky this time. There was very little damage to our
home, considering how high the winds were that blew
through the area. However, something is now different.
I can't really put my finger on it yet. Is it just
the calm after the storm? It's almost an eerie silence.
What's missing?
I
know what it is! It's the sounds of the owls from
the
nearby sugar cane fields. Did the storm blow the
owls away? Why aren't they lulling me to sleep with
their calming, serene, whooo…whooo…
PROBLEM:
This
may not only be a problem for owls but also for humans.
Complete your owl pellet dissection
and make a hypothesis as to why humans can be affected
by the loss of the owl population resulting from
hurricanes.
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