Pollinators, Seed Dispersers & Pest Controllers

Pollinators, Seed Dispersers & Pest Controllers

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Objective

Students will explain the positive impact bats have on the environment as pollinators, seed dispersers, and for insect control.

TEKS

  • 6: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F, 12A, 13C
  • 7: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F
  • 8: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F, 13C
  • BIO: 1G, 2A, 3A, 3B
Discovery Trunks

Materials

Provided

  • Student Activity sheet (per student)
  • Student Instructions page (per student)
*Provided in Discovery Trunk
Not Provided

  • Paper image, plastic, silk, or real flowers
  • Cheetos-type of orange snack, yellow-orange popcorn salt, or dry yellow-orange tempera paint powder
  • Index stock paper
  • Construction paper
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Wooden craft sticks
  • Toothpicks
  • Masking tape
  • Glue sticks
  • Aluminum foil
  • Wax paper
  • Cotton balls
  • String
  • Straws
  • Paper plates
  • Cups or any consumable items available

Activity Preparation

  • Prepare to show the 2:14-minute video, 1:04 minute video, and the short PowerPoint presentation and facilitate discussions.
  • Copy Bat Heads and The Pollinators Student Activity Sheets to complete individually or with a partner.
  • Provide a paper image, plastic, silk, or real flowers for student teams to pollinate with their model of a bat head.
  • You need to crush up Cheetos-type of orange snack, use yellow-orange popcorn salt, or dry yellow-orange tempera paint powder to simulate pollen for the models of the bat head to use to pollinate the teacher-provided flowers.
  • Gather and make consumable materials ready for students to make a model of a bat head.

  • 6: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F, 12A, 13C
  • 7: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F
  • 8: 1G, 2A, 3A-B, 5C-D, & F, 13C
  • BIO: 1G, 2A, 3A, 3B

Pollinators, Seed Dispensers, and Pest Controllers
Students will explain the positive impact bats have on the environment as pollinators, seed dispersers, and for insect control.

  • Engage
  • The Pollination Night Shift
    02:14
  • Saving Bats by Planting Agaves
    01:04
  • Explore
  • Wings of Life – Bats
    06:02
  • Explain
  • Evaluate
  • Elaborate
  • ELPS

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