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Alabama Learning Exchange

Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the owl food chain. They discuss owl facts, explore various websites, dissect an owl pellet, create a picture of the owl food chain, read the book, "Owl Babies," and write an owl poem.
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Curated OER

Night Shine

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore aquatic animals that are attracted to light. In this science lesson plan, students observe how aquatic animals respond to light at night. Students search for aquatic animals in the dark and attempt to catch them....
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Curated OER

Who Goes There?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars discover behaviors of nocturnal animals. In this animal behavior lesson, students conduct a night time experiment with black light tracing materials to observe nocturnal animal behavior in the wild.
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National Wildlife Federation

Night Friends - American Bats

For Teachers K - 8th
Bats are a misunderstood species. Pupils learn about the characteristics of bats in a three-part lesson. They begin by examining the adaptations of different types of bats, then explore the misconceptions humans have about the species....
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Curated OER

Games on Echolocation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Curated OER

Bats Do It-Why Can't I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore echos and how they are utilised in navigation.  In this sound lesson students calculate the amount of time between a sound and its echo.
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Curated OER

Into the Bat Cave

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore the lives of bats. In this bat lesson plan, students participate in up 6 activities that focus on bats and build their background knowledge about the nocturnal mammals.
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Curated OER

Earthworms and Making a Wormery

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars explore the environment by researching insects. In this earthworm lesson, students utilize soil and plexiglass to build a see through wormery in which young scholars can observe the worms at work. Students identify the...
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Curated OER

Kincaid Creatures

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students brainstorm a list of nocturnal and diurnal wild animals they see in their community and discuss how the animals would be different if they were living during the Ice Age. Using a handout, they discover how archeologists record...
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Curated OER

Bats: Fact and Fiction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students describe the characteristics and behaviors of bats. After viewing a video, they explain how bats use echolocation to navigate and how they find their young within a group. They list four misconceptions about the animal and...
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Curated OER

Batty Facts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete a chart which includes what they know about bats, what they want to know, and after conducting research on the Internet and in books, what they learned about bats.