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Going batty: Part II

Students will apply the knowledge they've gained about bats to create bat poetry.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By DPI Integration Strategies.

Going batty: Part I

In this lesson students will hear the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon and then create a Venn Diagram comparing bats to birds.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Science)

By DPI Integration Strategies.

Bats

The students will learn that bats are nocturnal and use echolocation.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)

By Debbie Lanier.

More Than Skin Deep: A Teacher's Guide to Caves

Designed to provide teachers with the resources to educate students about caves, their formation, related life science, and about cave safety.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Bats in Khmer temple

In my opinion Angkor Wat in Cambodia surpasses the ancient Egyptian ruins, though it is by far less well-known, especially amongst Americans. Angkor Wat is the name of an important temple built by the ancient Khmer civilization, but also has also come to refer...

Format: audio

Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Center

Located a few miles outside Columbia, North Carolina, the center provides programming dealing with ecology, ecosystems, and animals and their habitats to area school groups.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Located in Camden County on scenic U. S. Highway 17, the original Ocean Highway, just three miles south of the VA/NC border, the Great Dismal Swamp Center sits on the banks of the Dismal Swamp Canal, part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Baseball fun: Percentages, decimals, and fractions

Students will learn the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics found on baseball cards.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)

By Adrian Bustle.

Birds of a feather, an interdisciplinary unit: Language Arts wing

This lesson, which features Mark Twain's “Jim Baker's Blue-jay Yarn,” is part of an interdisciplinary unit on birds that contains math/science and language arts components. In the language arts wing, students will explore dialects and personification through this very entertaining tall tale full of the antics of talking blue-jays.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)

By Janet Fore.

Whole language reading: Pumpkin pie baking activity

A whole language literature-based reading lesson that culminates in a cooking extension activity.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Amy Durso.

Ila Hartsell Dodson oral history excerpt (labor unions)

Ila Hartsell Dodson was born in 1907 in South Carolina and began working in the Brandon Cotton Mill at age 14. Her mother, father, and all of her nine siblings worked for various cotton mills in North and South Carolina. She met her husband working in the...

Format: audio/interview

Write on!: Hooking the reader

Students will recognize new and innovative ways to write a narrative by discovering various ways to "hook" the reader with catchy beginnings and using figurative language and writing components to write an interesting story.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)

By Tina Duckwall.

Features of print

In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of gathering information from chapter headings, bold type and other organizational features of print (such as tables of contents) in non-fiction texts in print and online.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)

By Gail Goodling, Susan Lovett, and Sue Versenyi.

Labor unions in the cotton mills

This lesson for grades 11–12 will help students recognize the value of primary sources in studying and understanding history. Students will learn about the labor union movement in the U.S. by listening to oral histories, and will deliver a persuasive speech arguing for or against unionization.

Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)

By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.

Resources on the web

Bat Conservation International, Inc

Includes field notes, video footage, and informative articles about bats and bat conservation. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Bat Conservation International

Echoes: What animals can teach scientists

Students will learn how scientists use sonar to investigate the depths of the ocean. They will study the echolocation capabilities of bats and think about how ocean scientists can learn from these animals to develop deep-sea exploration techniques. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan

Provided by: National Geographic

Fish and flowers

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that compared the flora around ponds with fish to the flora around ponds without fish. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Night Creatures of the Kalahari

Sponsored by PBS, this websit explores the hidden world of rare and exotic animals beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari. Get up close and personal with a cuttlefish, a pit-viper, a tarsier, a flying gecko, fruit bats, and an owl. Learn how their eyes... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: PBS

Science of Baseball

Learning about the science involved in baseball is sure to improve your game! A variety of articles, interactive features, audio clips, and activities are used to teach a variety of science concepts using baseball as a theme. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Exploratorium

Australian Museum Online

Uses a wide range of formats from video to online forums for the dissemination of information and images that cover invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, mineralogy and paleontology, and anthropology. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Australian Museum