Locating Echo
Purpose:
To identify 5 major geographical features illustrated The Adventure of Echo
the Bat book.
To describe the major habitat Echo visits illustrated The Adventure of Echo the Bat book.
To recall food and shelter Echo finds during migration illustrated The Adventure of Echo the Bat book.
Materials Needed
Engage
1. Read The Adventure of Echo the Bat.
2. Create a chart with the following headings: Land feature, Habitat, Food, Shelter
3. Complete the chart with the information provided in the story.
Explore
Use the Locating Echo activity sheet to identify the geographical features
and habitats within those features that Echo encountered during his
adventure. Children can either write words, or paste of the type of
shelter that Echo found during his migration. Place these words or
pictures with the corresponding geographical feature.
There is a wide diversity of animals, insects, and plants that Echo could
find in each habitat. Discuss the insects found in each habitat of the
story. Have children place each insect in the habitat in which they were
found. Ask them, would these insects also be located in the other
habitats? Use the descriptions below to help them place insects in other
habitats.
Moths: Moths are often found in the city around streetlights mistaking it
for the moon, which they use as a guiding source for direction. In the
forest, they camouflage into tree bark during the day and lay eggs in the
bark of nearby tree or in other foliage. Moths help in the process of
pollination by inadvertently transporting pollen from one plant to another
on its wings.
Mosquitoes: Male mosquitoes feed on nectar of flowering plants. Female
mosquitoes find nourishment by drinking blood. They will seek a victim
just before laying eggs. An increase in the air's carbon dioxide levels
alerts them to the presence of human or other mammals. Mosquito eggs are
laid in a variety of moist, warm places.
Beetles: Beetles live in a variety of wooded and grassy areas. Many crops
are damaged by beetles feeding on them.
After completing the activity sheet, placing the insects in the common
habitats, pair children together to play a game.
Asking Good Questions Game:
1. Place a divider between each student so that they can not see each other's completed activity sheet.
2. Each player should place the cut out Echo within a geographical feature/habitat.
3. The players then take turns asking good yes or no questions to try to pinpoint in which geographical feature/habitat Echo is located.
4. By asking good yes or no questions, each player will eliminate clues to locating Echo on their opponent's activity sheet.
5. The player that locates Echo first wins.
Explain
Discuss how it is possible for different insects, animals, and plants to be
cohabitants. For younger children, choose a common natural structure such
as a tree. List the number of animals that might call that tree "home".
Food webs are good tools to illustrate this concept. For older children,
discussions can expand to nocturnal and diurnal species, symbiotic
relationships within habitats, or predator prey relationships.
Extend
Reinforce reading comprehension by creating a story chain. Cut sheets of
8.5x11 paper into 2x11 strips. Refer back to The Adventure of Echo the Bat
book. Write on each strip the geographical feature, habitat, food, and
shelter Echo found during his migration. Place the strips in a
chronological order of events according to the story. (For younger
children you may want to have the strips already made for them to put into
chronological order. Older children can write their own.) Children may want
to decorate them with pictures to illustrate the places and things Echo
saw. Loop the strips to create a chain, a story chain.
Evaluate
The completed activity sheet and/or story chain can be used as an
alternative assessment tool to evaluate comprehension.
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