Bats & Advanced Bats
This set of two new AY Honors provides a fun learning activity for a unit or individual. Time Frame:Basic Honor -- 1 hour instruction plus activity/observation time for requirement 16. Advanced Honor -- 45 minutes of interactive instruction -- This honor would be great fun for a unit activity, or as a project done alongside the Birds AY Honor or other nature observation-type honor.

Available @ Pathfindersonline.org

AY Honor Requirements - Now there's no need to be afraid of bats! Learn about echolocation, what bats eat, the difference between megabats and microbats, the benefits of bats, and best of all build or purchase a bat box and help bats live near you!

AY Honor Unofficial Answer Sheet -- AdventSource is working on a definitive guide for this and other new AY Honors. In the meantime, we hope this quick guide helps you as a Pathfinder or Instructor earn/teach the Bats AY Honor.

Links:

HowStuffWorks.com -- How Bats Work -- A great series of interactive articles by an incredible website. (Printable version of the entire article: http://science.howstuffworks.com/bat.htm/printable)

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/bats_activity.htm This site contains tons of fun teaching/learning activities to help Pathfinders learn about bats. It was originally set up for grade school teachers doing a unit on Bats.

Kids Planet Bats Factsheet -- A great brief fact sheet about bats

Bat House Project - The Bat House Project website is online to educate people in building artificial Bat habitats. They even have downloadable "house plans" to build your own bat house. http://www.batcon.org/bhra/economyhouse.html

Bat Trivia Site – This site contains tons of intriguing trivia about Bats for example – the smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, which weighs less than a penny.

The Sandiego Zoo – The San Diego Zoo has a great online webpage about bats.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/steward/www21.html – Bat Facts from NC State University