Add Music to your Bat Unit

Brown Bat

Stir up some excitement by adding a bit of music to your bat lessons!

Below is the lyrics to our song, "The Little Brown Bat".  The song is a great way to kick-start a unit on the only nocturnal mammal, and it can also be used as a way for students to learn lots of interesting "batty facts"--like how important bats are to our environment!

To get started:

• Provide students with a graphic organizer or a blank piece of paper.  
• Have them write 3-5 facts they hear in the song... (such as: 1. Bats are the only flying mammal.  2. Bats are nocturnal.  3. Bats navigate with echolocation. 4.  The Little Brown Bat is one type of bat. 5. Bats are good for the environment.)  
• Have students include a drawing with their facts.
• Encourage students to label their bat drawings.  

Lyrics:

The Little Brown Bat:

Way back up in the woods

Where the sun never goes

Lives the only flying mammal that we all know

He sleeps all day

Leads a nocturnal life

And uses echolocation

Instead of his sight

Then he goes “eeeeeeeeeeee”

Another bug done gone

Chorus:

This little brown bat is one you’ve probably seen

Over a thousand different species from here to the Caribbean

They’re expert fliers

The acrobats of the sky

Their ecological efficiency is one you can’t deny

Now wait a minute children, there’s a reputation to correct

Bats aren’t mean and evil and they deserve a little respect

They eat the mosquitoes, the gnats and pesky flies

There’s much more to a bat than really meets the eye

Yeah, in their roosts

Is where they like to hang

It’s been the same old story since the bats began

Repeat Chorus and second verse

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