1. Bats and Birds First grade Science
CA Content Standard: Life Science 2.0 Animals meet their needs in different ways. Students know that animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.

2. Bats can fly, but they are not birds.

3. Bats have fur.
Their wings are
made of skin.

4. The wings of birds are made of feathers.

5. Bats have arms and hands like you and I. Birds do not.
fingers
feet
bird
bat

6. A baby bat is born live.
Birds hatch from eggs.

7. Bats are different than birds.
Bats are mammals.
They are the only mammals that can fly.

8. Fruit Bats are nocturnal. insects and
They stay awake at night and hunt for food.
Do you know what some bats eat?
insects
and
Fruit

9. Bats hang upside down when they sleep. This is called roosting.

10. With echoes as their guides.
sing to “Row Row your boat”
When the sun goes down
Bats will come outside
Through the dark
They fly around
With echoes as their guides.