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Find out about Classroom without Walls - our new education programme!

Classrooms without Walls has lift off!!! Thank you for your interest in bats! We have eight lessons lined up for you! These will be added to our website every two weeks (with answers added a week after each lesson!). 
An introduction to Classrooms without Walls!
Meet Spike, our bat ambassador and some of his best friends! Spike will introduce you to our new education programme. Don't forget to check back soon to start your lessons!
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Answers for the introduction to Classrooms without Walls!
Did you manage to spot all the differences?
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Lesson 1 - What is a bat?
Welcome to Lesson 1! Spike and friends will start your tour into the magical world of bats!
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Answers to Lesson 1 - What is a bat?
We hope you enjoyed Lesson 1! Here's the answers, but we bet you did great!
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Lesson 2 - Bat diversity!
Welcome back, here's Lesson 2! Spike and friends teach you about the different types of bats and bat families!
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Answers to Lesson 2 - Bat diversity
We hope you enjoyed Lesson 2! Here are the answers.
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Lesson 3 - Where bats live
Welcome back, here's Lesson 3! In this lesson you are going to find out about the different places bats live.
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Answers to Lesson 3 - Where bats live
We hope you enjoyed Lesson 3! Here are the answers.
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Lesson 4 - What bats eat
Welcome back, here's Lesson 4! In this lesson you are going to find out about the about the big appetite of bats and what they like to eat.
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Answers to Lesson 4 - What bats eat
We hope you enjoyed Lesson 4! Here are the answers.
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Lesson 5 - Bat babies
Welcome back, here's Lesson 5 (wow by now I bet you know loads about bats)! In this lesson you are going to find out about bat babies and how incredible their mom's are.
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Answers to Lesson 5 - Bat babies
We hope you enjoyed Lesson 5! Here are the answers.
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Lesson 6 - Fantastic flyers
Welcome back, here's Lesson 6! We have a fantastic lesson for you this week, learning about why bats are so unique and awesome. We also have a special treat for you with a video showing you bats flying in slow motion so you can see how they fly. One of our lovely volunteers (Anne Youngman) is featured in this video too counting the bats as they are coming out of their roost. Anne has a bat detector so you will briefly hear the bats echolocating before the video switches to slow motion. So not only do you get to see some awesome bats flying but you get a glimpse into the work of a bat ecologist too!
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Lesson 7 - Threats to bats
Welcome back, this week you will be learning about the challenges and threats bats face! Life can be hard for bats, so they definitely could do with more friends just like you!
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Lesson 8 - How we can help bats!!!
Welcome back, to our final lesson in this series. We hope you have enjoyed it and have learned a lot about bats, how special they are and why they need more friends. In this lesson, you will be learning about the small or big things you can do to help bats.
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Other activities for you to try:
The wonderful adventures of a Flat Bat!
Decorate and cut out your flat bat, you can take a picture of your bat on adventures and send your picture to info@batswithoutborders.org with a note of where your bat is in the picture! 
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Check out these great links, to learn more about bats and some fun facts and activities:
How quickly can you learn this fantastic JumpStart echolocation song? Find out how bats fly and find their food in the dark with Batty Ears - fun times!

Learn about Echo the bat, who lives all the way in Arizona (which is in the south-west part of USA and excitingly right on the boarder with Mexico to the south, California in the west and New Mexico to the east).

Learn how to draw a cartoon bat - although we now know there are over 1,100 different type (or species) of bat in the world.

Find out more about the largest fruit bat roost in the world - Kasanka National Park (Zambia) 

Learn about Bracken Cave - home to the largest congregation of mammals in the world!

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  • Home
  • About bats
    • Bats of southern Africa
    • Role of bats in our ecosystems
    • Threats to bats
    • Bats and COVID-19
  • About us
    • Our story
    • Our strategy
    • Our colony
    • Our Partners and Sponsors
    • Jobs / Careers
  • Our work
    • Applied research
    • Capacity strengthening >
      • Supporting bat groups >
        • Bat group trainees
    • Conservation action
    • Engagement and education
    • Events and training >
      • Women in Science
      • Webinars >
        • Webinar catch up
      • Past events >
        • Around the Bat World
        • AfriPopo student symposium
  • Our impact
  • Donate
  • Shop
    • 2023 African bats calendar
    • Friends of BwB
    • Special offer
  • Kids Zone