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We often think of bats as a fall/Halloween animal, but these amazing creatures are around all year long. The lists of books below will help your child as they discover the amazing world of bats. Our list includes fiction and non-fiction books from dancing and baseball playing bats to their life cycle and where they live. There is also a list of bat activities you can do as you read about bats. Enjoy your adventures with this night creature.

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Fiction Books About Bats

Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies

Bats at the Ballgame is a fun book that tells a rhyming story of a bat baseball game. I love the twist on baseball game traditions like Cricket Jacks and Mothdogs. This is a list of the other bat books by Brian Lies: Bats at the Beach, Bats in the Band and Bats at the Library.

Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies

Bat Loves the night is a beautiful story of a bat's adventures at night. This book is part non-fiction because of the information the story gives about bats. I love the illustrations and simple story.

Little Red Bat by Carole Gerber

Little Red Bat learns about winter from many different forest animals. The story tells of how different animals spend the winter and warn Little Red Bat to watch out for dangerous animals that could show up. The fall illustrations are beautiful and give readers a glimpse into the forest as the animals prepare for winter.

Bats Around the Clock by Kathi Appelt

In Bats Around the Clock, American Bandstand with Click Dark is the hippest place to be. Each hour the dancing continues as the bats jive, swing, twist and do the hokey pokey. This is a fun rhyming story with a throwback to the past and American Bandstand.

Nightsong by Ari Berk

Nightsong tells of a little bat that ventures out into the world on his own for the first time. He can only see darkness but when he uses senses and singing he can see. The illustrations are perfect for showing how bats can't see but when they send out a signal they can see.

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Stellaluna is a famous story of a baby bat that falls from his home and lands in a birds nest. No bat list is complete without this sweet story.

Non-fiction Books About Bats

Bats by Kate Riggs

Bats uses great photographs and simple text to teach young readers about bats. Each page has 4 to 5 sentences with basic information about bats which is great for little ones just learning about bats.

Amazing Bats by Eyewitness Junior

Amazing Bats uses close up photos of bats and illustrations to teach you about how they see in the dark, what bats snack on, and why they take a winter break. The close up pictures are amazing to look at.

What is a Bat? by Bobbie Kalman

What is a Bat? gives lots of information about bats, types, what they eat, what they do, etc. This is a great book for kids that want to know more detailed information about bats. There are great photographs throughout that show bats in many different ways.

The Life Cycle of a Bat by Bobbie Kalman

The Life Cycle of a Bat is another book by Bobbie Kalman that has great photographs and gives detailed information. The book breaks down the stages of life for a bat and how they change.

A Place for Bats by Melissa Stewart

A Place for Bats gives information about where bats live around the country and how bats die when they lose their home or are killed by people. There are insets on each page they give information about different types of bats. The book has beautiful illustrations that show places where you can find bats, including your own backyard.

Bats: Hunters of the Night by Elaine Landau

Bats tells you all about bats and their world. The book features a photo of a bat on one page and on the opposite page information. The layout is simple which could be great for little readers.

Bats by Gail Gibbons

Bats is a classic Gail Gibbons book that uses illustrations to teach readers about bats. The illustrations include labels that will help readers learn the parts of a bat. I like that the text is small and the illustrations are the main focus.

Bat Crafts

There is an easy egg carton bat craft here on this site.

We also recently made a new version of the egg carton bat for fine motor play.

No Time For Flash Cards has a fun hand print bat.

A twist on the hand print bat can be found at Fun Handprint Art.

Fun A Day created a fun tie-dye bat with this craft.

Red Ted Art created a piñata out of their cardboard tube bat.

Bat Learning Activities

Here on Fantastic Fun and Learning we recently shared an - at word family game and a bat number matching game to go along with a bat theme.

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas has several letter and number activities for bats as well as art activities for preschool and kindergarten age kids.

Kroger's Kindergarten has several bat activities that are great for kindergarten and 1 st graders.

Royal Baloo features a bat unit study that 1 st graders and older can use as they learn all about bats.

On Youtube, there is a fun song by Jumpstart all about Echolocation.

Continue learning about pumpkins with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we've provide different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

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Bat Crafts, Alphabet Letter B Theme, Printable Activities and Worksheets
From First-School
http://www.first-school.ws/activities/animals/wild/bat1.htm
Bats are fascinating and this lesson helps children have an appreciation for how wonderful and important this animal is!

Bats at Enchanted Learning
From Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/bat.shtml
Enchanted Learning has a worksheet on bat anatomy, printouts, quiz, and other worksheets.

Stellaluna Literature Guide
From TeacherVision
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/fiction/activity/1738.html
This teacher's guide provides ideas for the exploration of Jannell Cannon's Stellaluna. Separated from her mother before she is old enough to fly, Stellaluna, an adorable baby fruit bat, finds her world turned literally upside down when she's adopted by a family of birds.

The Teacher's Guide: Bats
From The Teacher's Guide
http://www.theteachersguide.com/batslessonplans.htm
This web page includes bat activities, lesson plans, printable, writing prompts, math pages and more.

Investigating Bat Adaptations - Students investigate adaptations that increase a bat's chance of finding food and surviving in a particular habitat.

Bats: Maligned or Malicious -- Students explore their views of a threatened bat and present their findings.

Build a Bat House -- Students build a bat house for their Backyard Wildlife HabitatTM or Schoolyard Habitats® Site.

Frankie the Free-tailed Bat
From Texas Parks and Wildlife
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1423.pdf
Frankie the Free-tailed Bat is a story about a Brazilian Free-tailed Bat ( Tadarida brasiliensis) that was born in a cave located in the Texas Hill Country, but each year migrates to and from Mexico with thousands to millions of other members of its kind.

Guided Reading Lesson using Bats
From Teachers.Net
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1345.html
This lesson uses three books to teach about bats.

Discover Bats!
From Bat Conservation International ($23.95)
http://www.batgoods.com/category/BCI-Publications-46
The accompanying teacher's activity book offers more than 220 pages of creative lessons that teach bat behavior, habitat, ecology and conservation in conjunction with the video. Students use essential skills such as reading comprehension, mathematics, written and verbal communication and more to learn key facts about bats while gaining an appreciation for global conservation concerns. The kit contains the award-winning 47-minute DVD and teacher's guidebook complete with reference information, bibliography, appendices and glossary. Students can participate in Internet-based learning activities for additional study.

Indiana Bat, Kids, and Caves - Oh MY!: An Activity Book for Teachers
From the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department of Evansville's Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/mammals/inba/curriculum/index.html
This curriculum offers a wide range of activities about bats, karst topography, and caves. Lessons include:
1. Karst for the Classroom - Bulletin Board Set-Up
2. Spelunker Speak - Cave Vocabulary
3. Sanctuary of Stone - Reading Comprehension
4. Caves & Bats in Indiana - Mapping Activity
5. In The Caves Where We Live - Cave Communities
6. Caves Under Construction -The Science of Cave Formation
7. Caves & Humans - So Happy Together? - Impact of Human Use
8. Cave Conservation - Why Care? - Research and Role Play
9. Bravo, Bats! - Why Bats Deserve Our Thanks
10. Pest Control - It All Adds Up - Word problems
11. Chiroptera Chat - Bat Vocabulary
12. The Wing's the Thing - Bat Anatomy
13. Bats of Indiana - Playing Card Activity
14. Plotting Populations - Graph Drawing Activity
15. Indiana Bats And Me - Measurement Activity
16. Bats at Risk - Threats facing Indiana bats
17. Decades of Decline - Graph Interpretation
18. How Many Indiana Bats Can Sleep in a Shoe Box? - Spatial reasoning
19. Voices In The Night - Story Starters
20. Web of Decay - Cave Food Web Game

Plant a Bat From Organization for Bat Conservation CLICK HERE for a pdf
Bats eat night flying insects. If you would like to attract bats to your garden, you may want to plant flowers that are late day blooming or night-scented. These plants will attract night pollinators, like moths, which bats like to eat.

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Kindergarten Grades K - 3 Grades K - 8 Grades 3 - 6 Grades 3 - 8 Bat Crafts, Alphabet Letter B Theme, Printable Activities and Worksheets From First-School http://www.first-school.ws/activities/animals/wild/bat1.htm Bats are fascinating and this lesson helps children have an appreciation for how wonderful and important this animal is!

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When a paper airplane is aloft, there's a delicate balance between the downward force of gravity on the plane and the upward force of the air. A great insight from physics is that all of the forces of gravity acting on every atom of the plane behave like one force pulling down at a point called the "center of gravity." This point is easy to find. The plane will balance on one finger at its center of gravity (or on two fingers straddling its center of gravity). Mark this point with a pencil.

The forces of the wind on the airplane can also be treated as one force acting through a point called the "center of lift." Get a large fan. Hold the body of the plane loosely between two fingers with the nose of the plane pointing toward the floor. Then move the plane into the blast of air from the fan. There is only one place that you can hold the plane so that it will balance against the wind. Move your fingers along the body of the plane until you find the point at which the plane remains exactly vertical. Mark this point, which is the center of lift. No matter how thick the airplane is, the air only pushes on the bottom layer, so the shape of the plane controls the center of lift.

So we have gravity pulling down at the center of gravity, and air pushing up at the center of lift. In a properly designed glider, the center of gravity is in front of the center of lift so that the nose of the glider drops. (Check your pencil marks to find out if this is the case for your plane.) The nose slides forward through the air toward the ground, front end first.

But suppose you have a plane in which the center of gravity isn't in front of the center of lift? One of the great properties of paper is that you can fold it over on itself, creating regions of the plane that are twice or even four times as thick as the single panels of the wings. This allows you to concentrate the weight of the airplane where it helps most, toward the nose. The folds of paper near the front of the airplane move the center of gravity forward. To see how important this is, try flying your plane backward. It won't fly. The plane definitely has a front end.

The goal of tossing an airplane is to get it to glide smoothly and gently, flying straight or in a gradual curve. Ken Blackburn, shown here, must have the knack: From 1983 to 1996, he held the Guiness World Record for time aloft for paper airplanes. In 1998, he regained the record with a 27.6-second flight.

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They are creepy, sure, but they are also useful, cute and in great danger of extinction. So how do bat wings differ from bird wings? Let Josh and Chuck fill your brain with batty knowledge in the animated clip from Stuff You Should Know.

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Micah shows us how to make a paper bat that actually flaps its wings! This doesn't fly far in flap mode, but you can fly it straight as well. This video was shot on an iPhone.

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Introduction: Paper Hangar's - the Bat

This is a glider type paper airplane brought to you by PaperHangar.com. This paper airplane is one of our favorites at PaperHangar and we hope you enjoy it as well. It is easy to fold and fly. Stick around, learn the folds, commit them to memory, and share this paper airplane with your friends and the rest of the world!

Step 2:

Repeat step 1 on the opposite side. Fold the sheet of paper diagonally from the top left hand side along the fold line to meet the right edge of the sheet of paper. Then unfold the paper back into its original position.

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Now you should have the finished product. An excellent glider that performs with a surprising amount of maneuverability. It is also designed with the flexibility to customize and alter flight trajectories.

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This is a glider type paper airplane brought to you by PaperHangar.com. This paper airplane is one of our favorites at PaperHangar and we hope you enjoy it as well. It is easy to fold and fly. Stick around, learn the folds, commit them to memory, and share this paper airplane with your friends and the rest of the world!

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The Bat imitates modern day gliders, it is capable of traveling very long distances, but works best when there are existing air currents that it can use to fly on. This paper airplane is the most fun outdoors where a gust of wind can carry it very high and far.