1. Make a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast birds/bats - Stellaluna is a great book to read before making the comparisons.
2. Demonstate Echolocation - Have the children sit in a circle. One child is the bat. Assign several children to be bugs. Blindfold the bat. The bat stands in the middle of the circle. The bat then calls out, "Bug, Bug." Several children call out "here, here." The bat listens and finds the bugs. This demonstrates how echolocation is used by bats to find food.
3. Make a basic and beautiful bat - Give each child a large bat cut out of black construction paper. Direct the children to draw the features of a basic bat on one side and on the other side a beautiful bat. Use glitter on the face and wings for the beautiful bat. Draw fangs on the basic bat. Hang from the ceiling. This creates a bat cave in the classroom.
Make a sentence strip bat facts book - On the sentence strip write Bats___________. Staple several index cards or white pieces of paper to the sentence strip. Have children write bat facts on the index cards. |
