Bats
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Academic Content Standards: Grade
K-2
Science:
Life Science: Relate animal structures
to their specific survival functions (e.g., obtaining food, escaping
or hiding from enemies).
Scientific Inquiry: Discuss
observations and measurements made by other people.
Communicate scientific
findings to others through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures,
written, oral and recorded observations).
Language Arts
: Determine the meaning of unknown words using a variety
of context clues, including word, sentence and paragraph clues.
Answer literal, inferential
and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate
print texts and electronic and visual media.
Produce informal writings
(e.g., messages, journals, note and, poems) for various purposes.
Utilize appropriate
searching techniques to gather information from a variety of locations
(e.g., classroom, school library, public library or community
resources).
Acquire information
from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs,
Web sites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments, observations
or surveys) about the topic.
Use a variety of communication
techniques, including oral, visual, written or multimedia reports,
to present information gathered.
Mathematics:
Add and subtract whole numbers with and without regrouping.
Identify and select appropriate units for measuring. Use appropriate measurement tools
and techniques to construct a figure or approximate an amount
of specified length, weight or volume (capacity); e.g., construct
a rectangle with length 2 1/2 inches and width 3 inches, fill
a measuring cup to the 3/4 cup mark.
Pre-Activity:
Goal:
To take
the abstract idea of the weight of a big brown bat and amount
of blood a vampire bat consumes per day and relating it to everyday
objects that students can visualize. To learn how bat find their
food.
Objectives:
The students will be able to:
- Understand the concept
of how much a big brown bat weighs.
- Understand the concept
of echolocation.
- Understand the concept
of how much blood a Vampire bat can consume.
Materials
Needed:
- 1 Stick of Butter
- 1 Can of Pop
- 1 Teaspoon
- 1 Cup
- 1 Picture of a Brown
Bat (actual size)
- 1 Blindfold
Pre-Activity:
Weight of a Bat:
- Show the students
a picture of a bat.
- Ask the students
how much they think a bat weighs.
- Explain to the students
that a "Big" brown bat weighs as much as a stick
of butter.
- Pass a stick of
butter around for the students to feel how heavy a bat weights.
Echolocation:
- Explain to the students
that some bats can see with their eye and some see with their
ears.
- Ask students how
a bat might be able to find their food if they can’t see.
- Explain that a bat
sends out a high pitched squeak, that humans can’t hear,
and when the sound bounces off of an object (branch, wire, food)
they know where the location of the object. This is how they
find their food.
- Play the moth/bat
game: Have one student be the bat and the rest of the class
be the moths. Blindfold the bat and have them try to catch the
moths in the classroom. (Similar to the game Marco Polo)
Blood for Bats:
- Explain to the students
that there are some bats that drink blood and these bats are
called Vampire bats. There are only 3 out of 1,000 species of
bats that drink blood. NO Vampire bats live in North America.
- A Vampire bat can
consume 5 tsp of blood per day.
- With a can of pop,
tsp, and a cup. Measure out 5 tsp and explain that this is how
much blood a vampire bat consumes everyday.
- Ask students how
many tsp. they think is in a can of pop. Then measure.
- Ask how many more
teaspoons would they drink in a can of pop vs. what a vampire
would drink of blood.
- Solve the math problem
Distance
Learning
Goal: To
understand the difference between myths and facts about bats.
Objectives
: The students will
- Classify bats as
mammals
- Identify what bats
eat and how they acquire their food.
- Understand how bats
play an important role in the environment and how to help bats
survive.
Distance
Learning
- What makes a bat
a mammal.
- Characteristics
of a bat.
- What's for dinner:
what bats eat and how they get their food.
- Why bats are important.
- What can we do to
help bats.
Post Activity
Goal : To
use the knowledge gained from the lesson in any way, shape,or
form.
Objectives
: The students will
- Create a poem focusing
on the positive aspects of bats
- Create a mobile
using recycled items to help the environment.
- Challenge Activity:
Create a bat house
Materials
Needed
- Library Access
- Internet Access
- Paper
- Pencil/Pen
- Crayons, markers
- Hanger
- String
- Recycled Materials
Mobile
- Create object from
recycled materials
- Tie the objects
to pieces of string (varied lengths)
- Tie the other end
of the string to a hanger to make the mobile.
Bat
House
- Using books and
the internet, learn more about where a bat makes it's "house"
- Use materials, recycled
if possible, to create a replica of a bat house.
- Share what you learned
and made with the class.
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