Students investigate bats. In this animal science instructional activity, students use several websites and suggested bat books to write an informative paragraph. Students should be able to write with 90% accuracy.

Students examine the life of bats in Illinois. Using the internet, they research the history of the bat in Illinois and describe the way they find prey by using echolocation. They report their findings to the class and answer any...

Students 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.

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...

Students research information on bats while working in cooperative groups. They design posters with the information from their research.