Little Brown Bat

Elementary

Description

This interesting resource teaches students about bats in an effort to dispel negative myths and demonstrate the important contributions these animals make.  It offers both a teacher's guide and a student booklet.  The teacher's guide includes an introduction to six lessons as well as a number of activities, bat riddles and plans for building a bat house.   Lessons are supported with additional resources and background information.

The student booklet includes a story about bats and five support activities.  In addition to learning about the structure and behavior of bats, students will build bat houses, take part in predator-prey games that incorporate food chain concepts, make bat fruit salad and research different kinds of bats.  Pre and post tests to determine student attitudes towards bats are included with the resource. 

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