index.html

BatQuest

Grade Level- Kindergarten

Introduction:

Bats are unusual animals and endangered. They are the only mammal that flies. They also use an advanced system of echolocation for navigation. Did you know that there are almost 1000 kinds of bats located all around the world. There are some bats as small as a jelly bean and some as large as a small dog. On this BatQuest, it is your mission to find out the truth about bats, where they live and what they eat.

Challenge:

Time to begin your journey!!!!

You have just been selected by your teacher to do a presentation in front of the other students preparing them for the upcoming bat lesson. On this BatQuest, it is your mission to find out the truth about bats,

1) you will need to find out what a bat eats

2) you will need to find out where a bat lives

3) lastly, you will need to identify 3 parts of a bats body

Process:

Task 1:

Click on the link provided to play a fun matching game and find out what bats eat
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids/concentration/index.html
After playing the game, re-tell the foods that a bats eats to an adult who will write it down for you

Task 2:

Click on the link provided to play a fun game to find out where bats like to live
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/homegame/homegameframe.html
After playing this game, re-tell the places that bats could live to an adult who will write it down for you

Task 3:

Click on the picture below to examine a picture of the bats skeleton more closely
The click on the next picture to examine a labeled picture of the bats body

Decide on 3 body parts that you would like to label on your drawing and have an adult write that down for you as well

Final task: Make a book that shows the different places that a bat lives and also tells about the different food they like to eat, also include a picture of what a bat looks like labeling the 3 body parts you have discovered.

To get more information about bats, for example

Bat Myths How do bats help Humans Are bats also birds?

Or choose your favorite children's search engines, such as yahooligans, to search for these related words

Bats
Echolocation-(this is the term for how bats find their food)
Bat myths
Bat houses

Resources:

http://chamberlin.sbschools.net/users/dely/bats/bats.htm - got the information from the site

http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/boxpage1.htm- this is where the games came from