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Title: Bats, Bats, Everywhere


1
Bats, Bats, Everywhere
  • A four week integrated unit based on various
    kinds of bats and their habitats.

2
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

3
The Worlds Gone Batty
  • North America
  • Australia
  • South America
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • Europe

Bats live almost everywhere. Almost all
landforms have some bats.
4
Bat Vocabulary
  • wingspread
  • sound
  • roost
  • nocturnal
  • echolocation
  • cavern
  • endangered
  • camouflage
  • migration
  • echo
  • nectar
  • guano
  • hibernation
  • swoop

5
Connections
  • Math size comparisons, word problems, charts
  • Language/Writing journal prompts, bat stories
  • Reading nonfiction and fiction books,
    comprehension
  • Social Studies maps, globes

6
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

7
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.
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