Bats ppt lesson KS1 and KS2

Bats ppt lesson adaptable for KS1 and 2. This is a complete lesson which can be edited or broken into a series of shorter lessons. There are talk partner activities throughout the lesson and three supporting pupil worksheets. In addition, I have included a writing frame with bat image and a fact sheet. There are links to clips of bats and audio of Pipistrelle bat. Each slide has colourful and realistic pictures of bats to help pupils appreciate their colour, shapes and sizes.
Links well with topics on ‘Bats’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Nocturnal creatures’, ‘Life cycles’, ‘Echolocation’, ‘Flight’, ‘Habitats’.
Learning objectives
• To describe the features that all bats have.
• To explain the meaning of key vocabulary linked to bats for example: ‘nocturnal’, ‘echo-location’ and ‘chiroptera’ means.
• To say where bats live (habitats) and what they eat.
• To know the life cycle of a bat.
• To explain why bats are important to the environment.
Slide 2 Warm up: Guess the image hidden behind the shapes (12 shapes revealing part of the picture).
Slides 3&4 Answer and learning objectives.
Slides 5-7 Bats and features.
Slide 8 Dictionary task definition of ‘roost’.
Slide 9 Bat skeletons
Slide 10 Chiroptera talk partner exercise.
Slide 11-13 Hand wing and flight. Clip link of bats flying. Worksheet – Label the bat features.
Slide 14 Echolocation
Slide 15 & 16 Whispering or shouting bats.
Slide 17-18 Echolocation class game
Slide 20 Worksheet - Echolocation
Slide 21 Worksheet Adaptation
Slide 22 Nocturnal meaning -talk partners
Slides 23-24 Bat habitats and link to clip on Mexican cave bats.
Slide 25 Life cycle
Slide 26 Worksheet life cycle.
Slides 27&28 Match the bat to the name activity -partner work.
Slide 29 About Pipistrelle bats
Slide 30 Partner task – Draw an accurate pipistrelle using measurements and description.
Slide 31 Pipistrelle gallery
Slides 32-35 3 Pipistrelle bats plus audio clip
Slides 36-37 Protected species
Slides 38-39 Megabat and microbat
Slide 40 Bat news article on Vampire bats, blank writing frame
Slide 41 ’All about bats’ summary worksheet
Slide 42 Bat factsheet.