Teaching resources: Pellets and Feathers
Complement the animal workshop with practical resources that enrich your students’ learning.
Discover two exclusive complementary materials — pellets and feathers from native birds — designed to enrich your activity with fauna at the center and facilitate your teaching task. The complementary material has a one-time cost of €20, and includes a digital booklet + physical kit (feathers and pellets).
When to request these teaching resources?
We recommend incorporating the feathers and pellets kit when your workshop or project meets any of the following cases:
You are preparing a teaching unit on birds of prey or food webs and want to offer a practical experience.
You can dedicate time to a workshop with scientific and realistic material that facilitates the active participation of students and deepens the topic.
You want students to participate directly in observation and research with animal traces.
If your project is a generic workshop without in-depth knowledge, this kit is not necessary.
What will you find in these teaching resources?
Pellets
- What are pellets: balls of hair or feathers expelled by birds of prey, corvids and other birds.
- Educational utility: they allow you to identify what these birds feed on (bones, thorns, insects) and understand the food web.
- Our kit includes examples such as eagle owl, barn owl, eagle or falcon’s egagropila.
- Benefit for the teacher: an activity with a scientific basis ready to be applied immediately.
Bird feathers
- What feathers are and what they do: light but resistant, adapting to the bird’s flight, habitat and behavior.
- Proposed activity: study of structure, comparison of textures according to lifestyles, classification by function (coverts, flight feathers, tail feathers).
- Kit included: assorted feathers of various species, down, explanatory letters.
- Benefit for the teacher: classroom material that can be used both before and after the activity.
Access to complementary teaching resources
Book the workshop with us and request the complementary material.
For a one-time fee of €20, you will receive immediate access to the digital booklet.
We will physically deliver the material kit (feathers and pellets) to you on the day of the workshop with animals.
Apply the resource to your center: without complicated preparations and with everything included.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Can we use the resources without having hired the workshop?
- No, the resources are only accessible when the center contracts the workshop with fauna.
Are they adapted to different cycles?
- Yes, the materials are designed for nursery, primary and secondary education groups.
Is it safe for students and animals?
- There is no risk to animals or students.
- Feathers fall naturally every year.
- The pellets are spontaneously expelled by the birds.
- Students are required to wash their hands with soap at the end of the workshop, as a recommended hygiene measure.
Why €20?
- This small contribution covers:
- The collection, selection and preparation of physical material with scientific and quality criteria.
- The preparation of the booklet adapted to the educational stage.
Your students will experience a session with feathers and pellets full of curiosity and discovery.
Add extra value to your project.
