Resources for teachers - Books, videos etc.
If you wish to submit urls for us to link to, please email us. We would be particularly interested in any stories or drawings relating to Stellaluna done by children. Cherrol McGhee
Sunset State School Year 4 http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/sunset01/
Links to other Bat Info Sites or Stellaluna Sites
Stellaluna's Friends introduces a great project centred around Stellaluna and bats. The results of the project are posted but also all the sites to visit for information. http://www.classrooms.globalchalk.com/Clinton2nd/bats
Crossword Puzzles from the Educator's Activity Book introduces new words associated with bats. Two puzzles available at lower primary and middle-upper primary levels. http://www.batcon.org/toppuz.html
Bat Fruit Salad from the Educator's Activity Book aims to help children understand that bats are important to the products we use everday eg. in pollinating plants and seed dispersal. A simple recipe for fruit salad is given. http://www.batcon.org/salad.html
Where's My Baby from the Educator's Activity Book is an activity that helps children to learn how mother free-tailed bats find their babies. A useful activity to do when learning about the senses. http://www.batcon.org/babyfind.html
The Buzbee Bat House plots the internal temperatures inside a bat house and has info on how to obtain bat house designs. There are many links to Bats Around the World listed by continent as well as bat organisations, exhibits, academic information, humour, articles, pictures and a section for kids. http://www.nyx.net/~jbuzbee/bat_house.html
Best Practices contains ideas for teachers to do an integrated unit on Stellaluna comparing bats and birds. http://www.osr.state.ga.us/bestprac/science/S-5.htm
Bats! Bats! Bats! opens with great graphics but has difficult to read text against the fancy wallpaper. Easier to print it out. Otherwise a good site for bat info before going on to advertise products available on the theme eg. Stellaluna books and puppets and bat house kits. http://www.a-two-z.com/page_b.html
Janell Canon Biography including photograph. http://www.friend.ly.net/user-homepages/j/jorban/scoop/biographies/jcannon.html
The Stellaluna Book Rap Page http://owl.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/stellaluna.html
Great Bat site It has everything you need to know for a bat unit.
http://intergate.cccoe.kiz.ca.us/bats/welcome.html
Created by Cherrol McGhee, Libby Daly and Jenny Stubbs, April 1997 . Updated 1 June 1998.
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