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I was supposed to get this title to MaryM, ever since we made our nighttime field trip to view fireflies and bats, among other things. Sorry Mary  ...can you believe I forgot (no--really)??
It's called Bats: Swift Shadows in the Twilight and the activities look really good.
Of course there's nothing like getting out and seeing them. My 6 yo ds is still enthralled that one zoomed past his head and he could feel the "whoosh."
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That looks really neat! I am seriously thinking of a bat study to go along with our astronomy science unit. Maybe we'll have night-school! We love learning about nocturnal critters and have already studied owls, crickets, and moths. Bats seem like the next logical thing.
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We had an "impromptu" lesson on bats the other day. My dh went out to open the umbrellas on the patio and by the pool to find that bats had decided to "sleep" up in our umbrellas. The kids got a very close look at them and thought it was "cool". Our dd (11) even got buzzed by one when they decided to fly off. The kids had fun watching them fly off to find a dark place to spend the day, and imagining where they would end up.
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My dd had one in her room awhile back. She is in an upstairs room and leaves her window open at night (no air conditioning) so it flew in. Anyway, it was "interesting" trying to catch it as it flew around the room! I ended up throwing a pillow case over it (with the kids cheering wildly) and wrapping it in a baby blanket to carry it outside. When we opened the bag it crawled out and walked around a bit on all fours (legs and wings) before flying away. Fascinating critters.
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Oh, I loooooooove bats! I think they're so interesting!
I want to make a bat house with my children but I worry that the neighbors would think we'd all gone batty!!!! 
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Dh taught DS to throw a small pebble up into the air and watch them swoop down to catch it... 
Now when we walk, DS and DD are always trying to throw stones at the bats 
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I remember floating on tractor tubes down the Yampa River in CO with my uncles, fly fishing, but they were not catching fish but BATS on the upstroke! They needed more bats there, the mosquitoes were awful.
Here in the FL Keys in 1929, Mr. Perky built a huge Bat Tower(scroll down to Lower Keys for picture) and imported bats. It failed.
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I had seen that one - just didn't realize it was published by Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Some fun picture books we found:
Of course the bat classic - Stellaluna
Bat Loves the Night
Baby Bat's Lullaby
Other non-fiction for young ones:
Bats
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats
Amazing Bats
Shadows of Night: Hidden Wolrd of the LIttle Brown Bat
Fun facts for the older crowd - Owls Aren't Wise and Bats and Blind
Bat Conservation International
Echolocation
This is a bat echolocation game similar to one a naturalist educator had our kids do at a bat field trip.
Biosonar website has a bat hsitroy timeline, great explanations of echolocation and animal sonar, with some awesome computer demos. Great addition to a bat study.
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I've also heard doing that with a ping pong ball.
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Great books Mary. We also loved Wufu: The Story of a Little Brown Bat. There was an interesting warning in the paper the other day about rabies. Apparantly Brown Bats bite so gently it may not even break the skin and sleeping in the same room with a bat (who the heck does that on purpose?) it seems you can be bitten without knowing it and die from rabies.
Keep the bats outside!
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