Bats: Swift Shadows in the Twilight

This curriculum guide is all about bats and provides information through the telling of stories about bats and their history and folklore. The activities contained in this guide employ an interdisciplinary approach and use mazes, puzzles, model-building, and board games to interest and inform students. Topics covered include the physical characteristics of bats, how they are designed for flight, bat behavior, building a three-dimensional bat cave, bat species and their diets, and the legend of the vampire bat. A bibliography, a glossary, and an answer key to the activities are provided. Contains 12 references. (DDR)