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Magic School Bus Going Batty

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have a scary adventure with a set of reading activities based on Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus Going Batty! Several worksheets encourage kids to predict what they will learn with a KWL chart, examine the new vocabulary words from...
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Echo Location

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Bats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate bats. In this animal science lesson, students use several websites and suggested bat books to write an informative paragraph. Students should be able to write with 90% accuracy.
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Whales and Dolphins Multiple Choice Quiz

For Teachers 7th
For this multiple choice quiz worksheet, 7th graders answer 10 questions based on the book, Whales and Dolphins by Susanna Davidson.
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Dolphin Dive

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this reading worksheet, students complete several paragraphs about dolphins by filling in the word that best completes the sentence. Thirteen words are included to complete the paragraphs.
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Bats Do It-Why Can't I?

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

For Teachers K
Students create a book about bats. They write a letter to a scientist containing questions about bats. They compare the socialization of bats to humans; compare the needs of bats to humans and other animals.
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Night Hike

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Young scholars explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it...
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Bats

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students hypothesize and model how the bones in a bat wing are made up.  In this exploratory lesson students test their hypothesis, develop questions about bat parts and watch a video on bats.
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We're Batty

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars watch a video about bats and compare and contrast them to birds. They identify the specific characteristics that identify bats as mammals and what makes them unique from other mammals.
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Bats

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners model how the bones in a bat wing are organized. They develop questions about bat body parts based on photographs. They hypothesize how bats locate their food.
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Brillant, Beautiful Bats!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the internet to gather information on bats. They write their own bat poem and describe the differences between the parts of a bat's body. They identify how bats are important to humans and how they control the insect...
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guided reading lesson using BATS

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students answer questions, then after reading several bat books, students revisit the questions.
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Bats, Bats, Everywhere!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research information on bats while working in cooperative groups. They design posters with the information from their research.
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Adaptations-What a Concept

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners study the pink river dolphin and how it has adapted to its environment.  In this adaptations lesson students construct a map that represents certain relationships. 
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What Shape Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students attempt to determine the shape of a hidden item by bouncing a ball off of it. They attempt to determine how a ball would bounce off of an item and by rolling the ball until it hits and bounces off the item. They draw both their...
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Come to Mommy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a simple experiment to illustrate the concept of mother bats identifying their young. They sniff stickers in order to imitate the behavior of mother bats in the wild.
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Hunting For Bats

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the adaptations that occur in bats. The benefits of adaptations are discussed with them and the probability of survival is measured. The specific adaptations are written and defined.
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What Shape Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students predict the shape of an unknown object by bouncing a ball on it. In this physics lesson, students relate this activity to how dolphins use echo-location to navigate. They analyze their lab result and discuss findings.
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Dolphin Documentary

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars use their knowledge of dolphin natural history to create a "movie."

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