BATSLET’S GO ON A BAT ADVENTURE! CLICK ON THE

FIRST GREEN BOX TO GET STARTED!

IntroductionTask

Where do bats live?

What do bats eat?

How do bats see in the dark?

How are birds and bats the same?

Lets make a Venn Diagram

Resources

Evaluation

Rubric

Conclusion and Extras!

Introduction

•Are you ready to learn about birds and bats?•Have you ever wondered where bats live? What bats eat? How they get around in the dark?•Let’s work together and find out the answers to our questions…

Task•Find out as many bat and bird facts as you can by using books and the internet.

•Write down all your new facts on the data sheet the teacher gives to you.

•Make a Venn Diagram that shows how birds and bats are alike and how they are different.

Step 1

Let’s find out where bats live! Click on the bats below to find

out

Step 2

Let’s find out what bats eat! Click on the bat below to find

out

Step 3Let’s find out how bats get

around in the dark! Click on the bat below to find out

Step 4Let’s find out what makes birds

and bats different from each other

Let’s make a Venn Diagram

With all of the facts you have collected on your data sheet, click on the link below to make your very own Venn

Diagram

Ask Ms Wilson or Ms Whitt how to get started making your Venn Diagram

Resources

Websites used:http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/homes.htm

http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/food.htm

http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/echo.htm

http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/bird.htm

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/index.html

Books used:Bats by Gail GibbonsStellaluna by Janell Cannon

Evaluation

Ask yourself these questions before turning in your work:Do I have all of my data sheet filled in?Do I have 3 unique bird facts in my Venn Diagram?Do I have 3 unique bat facts in my Venn Diagram?Do I have 3 ways birds and bats are similar in my Venn Diagram?Am I proud of the work I have done?

If you have answered “yes” to all of these questions, you can print out your Venn Diagram and turn it in to Ms. Whitt or Ms. Wilson.

If some of your answers were “no”, go back to your work and make some changes.

RubricOnce your Venn Diagram is turned in, this is how it will be graded

All of your data sheet is filled in3 unique bird facts3 unique bat facts3 facts that are the same for bats and birds

Most of your data sheet is filled in2 unique bird facts2 unique bat facts2 facts that are the same for bats and birds

Some of your data sheet is filled in1 unique bird fact1 unique bat fact1 fact that is the same for bats and birds

Little to no work has been done on data sheet and Venn Diagram

Conclusion and Extras!Now that you have learned all

about bats and birds, YOU are the expert! Go and tell your friends

and family all you have learned.

If you have loved learning about bats, here are more websites and books you might enjoy!•Extremely Weird Bats by Sarah Lovett

•Eyewitness Books: Birds by David Burnie

•Eyewitness Juniors: Amazing Bats by Frank Greenaway

•http://hometown.aol.com/bats4kids/

•http://www.batbox.org/

•http://www.nwf.org/batguide/

Images used from the following sites-

•http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.clipartgallery.com/holidays/halloween/bat.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.clipartgallery.com/holidays/halloween/halloween3.html&h=150&w=268&sz=8&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=S0RLINggHFvHHM:&tbnh=63&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbat%2Bclipart%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DMxu%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX

•http://desktoppub.about.com/od/freeclipart/l/bl_bats.htm

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