Talk with the children about bats and that they are the only mammals that can fly. Show the children many pictures of different species of bats. Compare various bat pictures with one another. Ask the children to point out the differences - as many as they can find. Place many of the pictures of the bats on a bulletin board and label with their names.
Bats vary in their characteristics of what they look like.
But within the two main groups, the microbats and the megabats there are similarities that make them apart of that particular group. In looking at bat pictures we can learn a great deal about them. And bats are important to our world. Over the last few decades, much has been learned about how bats help keep our environment healthy. Student is able to communicate most of the differences that they see in the pictures of the bats.