Bats, Bats, Everywhere

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Bats, Bats, Everywhere

• A four week integrated unit based on various
  kinds of bats and their habitats.

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Various Kinds of Bats

• Little Brown
• Greater Fruit
• Northern Ghost
• Tube-nosed
• Vampire
• Yellow-shouldered

• Mexican Funnel-eared
• Common Pipistrelle
• Hog-nosed
• Long-Tongued
• Fisherman

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The Worlds Gone Batty

• North America
• Australia
• South America
• Asia
• Africa
• Europe

Bats live almost everywhere. Almost all
landforms have some bats.
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Bat Vocabulary

• wingspread
• sound
• roost
• nocturnal
• echolocation
• cavern
• endangered

• camouflage
• migration
• echo
• nectar
• guano
• hibernation
• swoop

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Connections

• Math size comparisons, word problems, charts
• Language/Writing journal prompts, bat stories
• Reading nonfiction and fiction books,
  comprehension
• Social Studies maps, globes

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Bat Resource Materials

• Amazing Bats, Greenway, Frank, Eyewitness
  Juniors, 1991
• Bats, Creatures of the Night, Milton, Joyce,
  Grosset Dunlap, 1993
• Stellaluna, Cannon, Janell, Harcourt Brace and
  Co., 1993
• Vampire Bats and Other Creatures of the Night,
  Steele, Philip, Kingfisher, 1995

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Amazing Bat Facts

• The worlds smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat
  of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• A single little brown bat can catch 600
  mosquitoes in just one hour.
• Giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have
  wingspans of nearly six feet.