Iowa Public Television

The Blank Park Zoo is will be here to ease all the spookiness that Halloween creates around bats! We’ll read the story Stellaluna and talk about some of the myths and many facts about bats. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers so come prepared with thoughtful questions in mind. The session will end with an activity where kids get to make their own bat to take with them back to their classrooms and homes.

Please bring the following materials for each student:

• One copy of this bat activity
• scissors
• crayons
• glue

Following the ICN session, registrants receive the complimentary books The Toothless Vampire and Bats or alternate titles.

Blank Park Zoo ICN events include:
Stellaluna
Wild and Rare
Kids Talk with a Zoo Educator
Marvelous Mammals
Zoo Detectives
Exotic Habitats
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
Creepy Crawlies

Session Related Web sites:

• Blank Park Zoo - Iowa's Wildest Adventures.
• Bat Conservation International - All you ever wanted to know about bats plus a cool section for kids called Kidz Cave.

Related Lesson Plans and Units:

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Applicable standards from MCREL:

Life Sciences

Level I [Grade: K-2]
1. Knows the basic needs of plants and animals (e.g., air, water, nutrients, light or food, shelter)
2. Knows that plants and animals have features that help them live in different environments

Level II [Grade: 3-5]
1. Knows that living organisms have distinct structures and body systems that serve specific functions in growth, survival, and reproduction (e.g., various body structures for walking, flying, or swimming)
2. Knows that the behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal cues (e.g., hunger) and external cues (e.g., changes in the environment), and that humans and other organisms have senses that help them to detect these cues

Classroom Resources:

The following related programs are available on IPTV's broadcast or from the AEAs: (Check the K-12 Classroom Television (www.iptv.org/k12catalog) Web site for broadcast dates and times.)

• DRAGONFLY TV (Grade Level: 2-5)
• BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY (Grade Level: 4-12)
• WILD CHRONICLES (Grade Level: 5-12)

Only twelve 'interactive' sites are scheduled for each session. Videotaping is NOT available.

Sessions are provided at no cost by Iowa Public Television in collaboration with the Iowa Communications Network to PK-12 students and the adults working with or on behalf of PK-12 students in Iowa.

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