Discovery Education
Sonar & Echolocation
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...
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Games on Echolocation
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Echolocation
Students explore echolocation. In this bats science lesson, students compare sunlight reflecting off a mirror to sound waves hitting a bat's ears. Students complete a worksheet about bats.
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Echolocation and Communication
Students participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.
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Plumbing the Deep-Using Sound Waves to See
Young scholars explore and learn about the concept of echolocation. In this echolocation instructional activity, students explore how animals and engineers use echolocation (seeing under water) and sound waves to look and hear things...
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Sound for Sight
Students study echolocation and understand how dolphins use it to locate prey, escape predators, and navigate their environment. They view a video, "In the Wild-Dolphins with Robin Williams" and see first hand how dolphins communicate. ...
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Bat Ecology
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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Whale Echolocation
Young scholars demonstrate how a whale uses echolocation to track food and identify one other animal that also uses echolocation. For this echolocation lesson, students play a game where one child (the whale) is blindfolded and gives a...
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Dolphin Communication
Pupils listen to a lecture on dolphin communication methods. They consider ways in which humans communicate and participate in an activity to assess the role of smell in human communication.
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Bat Program
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works. They take a quiz to dispel some of the myths associated with bats.
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Let Your Ears Do the Walking
Pupils examine the effects of bycatching on water environments. They discover how echolocation works. They participate in a simulation of the process to use it while walking blindfolded.
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Echolocation and Communication: Body Language Charades
Students participate in a variation of the game charades to explain how whales use their bodies to communicate.
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Waves
Young scholars identify the different parts of a wave. In this physics lesson, students explain how animals communicate using sound waves. They discuss the effect of Navy's sonar on dolphins and whales.
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Bats: Fact and Fiction
Students describe the characteristics and behaviors of bats. After viewing a video, they explain how bats use echolocation to navigate and how they find their young within a group. They list four misconceptions about the animal and...
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Placebo - 1
Students explore the placebo effect, thus producing the positive effects of acupuncture without needle insertion. Students discuss echolocation. They participate in hands-on/minds-on activities in reflected sound waves. They...
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Connect the Dots
In this connect the dot worksheet, students connect the dots to reveal a flying mammal that uses radar-like echolocation to find its way around in the dark.
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Can You Hear It?
Students work together to discover the concept of echolocation. They examine dolphins and their behaviors. They discuss how humans could use this information to help them in their everyday lives as well.
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Echo Location
Learners participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Bats Migrate South
Students examine the life of bats in Illinois. Using the internet, they research the history of the bat in Illinois and describe the way they find prey by using echolocation. They report their findings to the class and answer any...
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What Shape Is It?
Learners predict the shape of an unknown object by bouncing a ball on it. In this physics instructional activity, students relate this activity to how dolphins use echo-location to navigate. They analyze their lab result and discuss...
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Come to Mommy
Fourth graders participate in a simple experiment to illustrate the concept of mother bats identifying their young. They sniff stickers in order to imitate the behavior of mother bats in the wild.
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Hunting For Bats
Fourth graders investigate the adaptations that occur in bats. The benefits of adaptations are discussed with them and the probability of survival is measured. The specific adaptations are written and defined.
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Dolphin Documentary
Students use their knowledge of dolphin natural history to create a "movie."
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Bats Do It-Why Can't I?
Students explore echos and how they are utilised in navigation. In this sound lesson students calculate the amount of time between a sound and its echo.