Animals: Bats
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Title:
| Animals: Bats |
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Description:
| These sites are about bats and their habitats. Covers information on myths, mammals, megabats, microbats, and echolocation. Includes links to eThemes Resources on mammals and caves. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Bats, Bats, Everywhere
Play the game, take the quiz, and explore a bat's world: caves, food, difference from birds, and echolocation.
Jaguar Paw: Bats
This site is all about bats. Covers topics such as echolocation, insectivores, frugivores, etc.
MODOC: Missouri Bats
Simple essays with color photos tell you how the bats of Missouri live and the dangers they are facing.
Bats Conservation International
An organization devoted to bats that has lots of information about bat protection and research projects.
ThinkQuest:: Bat Quest
Learn everything you want to know and more on this student-created site. Information about many different aspects of bats. Includes lots of illustrations.
California Underground
The site explains echolocation vividly with simple theory and a motion picture. Links to cave conservation and cave photographs.
Successful Bat Houses
Here are online plans and recommendations for building and mounting a small house for bats.
Batty About Bat's Kid's Page
This has a photo of bats in a cave, an illustration of the anatomy of a bat, and a suggested classroom game.
Bat Movie
See thousands of bats fly out of their cave to go hunting at night.
NOVA Online: Bat Cave
Read about an explorer's adventure going into a cave filled with bats. Includes a few photos.
Bats!
Why are bats scary? This site explains all about bats and why we shouldn't be afraid of them.
eThemes Resource: Missouri: Caves
Listings and maps to caves in Missouri. Includes information about cave formations and archaeology.
eThemes Resource: Animals: Mammals
These sites tell about mammals and the characteristics that make them mammals. There are sites describing how bats are mammals and a bat webcam. There are many pictures and a few animal games.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
5.1, 5.2, 5.4
AR Standards:
LS.2.3.1, LS.2.4.1.a, LS.4.4.1, LS.4.5.14.a, LS.4.5.14.c, LS.4.5.14.e, LS.3.6.3, LS.3.6.5.a, LS.3.6.6.c, LS.3.6.7.a, LS.3.6.7.f, LS.3.6.7.g, LS.3.6.7.h, LS.4.6.1
IL Standards:
12.A.1a, 12.A.1b, 12.B.1a, 12.B.1b, 12.A.2a, 12.B.2a, 12.B.2b, 12.A.3c, 12.B.3b
ME Standards:
A.3, A.4, A.3
MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.8, 4, 3, 4, 4.1.A.a, 4.1.A.b, 4.1.D.a, 3.1.E.c, 3.1.E.d, 3.1.A.a, 4.1.B.a, 4.1.B.b, 4.3.C.a, 4.3.C.b
NV Standards:
L.5.A.1, L.5.C.2, L.5.C.3, L.5.C.5
OH Standards:
2.B.2, 2.B.3, 2.B.3, 2.C.4, 2.C.5
UT Standards:
II.1.a, II.1.c, V.2.a, V.2.b, V.2.a, V.2.c, V.2.d
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