TITLE PAGE INTRODUCTION THE TASKS THE PROCESS EVALUATION CONCLUSION

RESOURCES HELPFUL HINTS

THE PROCESS

Before beginning your ‘batty’ tasks, take a few minutes to read through the steps you will be following to complete the lesson (take notes if needed). Once you believe you understand the process and what is being asked of you, come back and begin your tasks.

Good luck on your BattyQuest!

1. Complete the following Scavenger Hunt below using the Bat Conservation International Web site: www.batcon.org

Scavenger Hunt

1. Find a list of bat facts. What are two new facts that you have learned?

2. Find out how to build a bat house. What did you learn?

3. What are the names of three bats that live in the US?

4. Find information about a bat called a flying fox. What did you learn?

5. Name the different species of bats that are located in Massachusetts? Rhode Island? Which bats are found in both states?

6. Write two other things you have learned from this Web site.

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For Helpful Hints go to: Helpful Bat Hints

Based on the information you found in your ‘hunt,’ what have you concluded about bats and people?

2. Chose one of the links below and print out one bat pattern. With help or by yourself, increase the pattern size by right clicking on the bat and clicking Copy. Then paste (Control + v or click Edit and Paste) the bat on your Word Program such as Microsoft Word; click View and Zoom (choose size). This way the bat is the size of the paper so you will have room to write on it later. If you can find a different bat pattern, you are welcome to use that as well. Since every computer is different, if you can increase the bat size another way in order for writing to fit on it, then that will work out fine as well.

Link 1: http://www.sacredspiral.com/crafts/patterns/bat.html

Link 2: http://www.first-school.ws/t/pattern/bat_3.htm

3. Click on the following link and print out the displayed bat poems.

Link: Bat Poems

4. Read over the poems and copy your favorite bat poem into your notebook the exact way it appears on the printed out paper.

5. At this time, go to the Evaluation section and print out the Scavenger Hunt and Bat Poem Rubric. Use this rubric to guide you through how to achieve the highest points possible.

6. After everything has been printed and read, cut and color your bat pattern.

7. Hold your bat upside down (since bats sleep upside down), and copy the poem you have chosen into the middle of your bat, just the way it appeared on the computer (Hint: Read the rubric for help).

8. Once completed, have you or your teacher, punch a hole in the tail of the bat and attached a string or yarn through the hole. You batty poems should now be able to hang from the ceiling or elsewhere in your classroom.

9. Please go back and check over your work. Evaluate each task and be sure your answers and poems are clear and completed to the best of your ability.