We are going batty in our class. We are just beginning our unit on bats and my students love it! I love teaching how bats help us and we shouldn’t be scared of them.
Batty Breakfast
One activity my kids love is batty breakfast. Batty breakfast is a great activity to give students a visual as to how many mosquitoes a brown bat may eat in a hour. Do you know how many? Some scientists say up to 600 mosquitoes. That is a lot! So we break our students into 6 groups and give each group a paper plate and a paper plate with 100 mosquitoes on it. As a group, they need to work together to cut apart their mosquitoes and glue them onto the plate. When each group is done, we have 6 plates with 100 mosquitoes on each plate.
Would you like some mosquitoes to make your own batty breakfast? Click here for your yummy mosquitoes!
Batty Math
All of these activities can be found in my Bats- Math Center Fun Pack.
Nonfiction Resources
If you are looking for nonfiction resources, be sure to check out the Nocturnal Animal Close Reads or Bats: A Nonfiction Resources.
More Bat Resources
For more bat resources, check out these past blogposts and products:
Here is a Pinterest board with bat and other nocturnal animal ideas.
Follow The Teacher Bag’s board Nocturnal Animal Resources on Pinterest.
[…] Our art teacher at our school rocks. She always is in the know as to what we are learning about and does great art projects related to it. These are our bats at night pictures she did with them, along with a cute crafty bat freebie from A Cupcake for the Teacher. IF you want to read more about some of the activities we do with bats, check out this blogpost. […]