The Adventure Of Echo The Bat

Echo the bat's mother teaches him how and where to find food, and when he becomes separated from her in a storm, he relies on these lessons to find his own way home.

A story about a big brown bat migrating through the varied habitats of Arizona, combining art illustrations & satellite images. Scientists use Landsat imagery to help study & preserve our Earth's habitats like those in Echo's adventure. Preserving habitats & routes between them are important to survival of migrating species such as the big brown bat. Author & illustrator Ginger Butcher, who works at the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at Goddard Space Flight Center, designed a web site called The Adventure of Echo the Bat.Ó It teaches middle school children about the electromagnetic spectrum, remote sensing, & biodiversity. This book is based on the website. For Grades K-4. Printed on heavy card stock.

The Adventure of Echo the Bat pop-up book is a story designed to introduce children ages 5-9 to remote sensing and interpreting satellite imagery from NASA satellites. The story follows a young bat migrating in Arizona through a variety of different habitats. Context in the story engages the reader in the shape, patterns, and texture of Landsat satellite imagery. The lift-the-flap interactives within the imagery allow children to compare the satellite view with a bat's-eye perspective. The book concludes with two activities designed to reinforce the concepts of satellite image interpretation and active versus passive remote sensing.

Included in a program of both online and classroom components, this book is accompanied by an online suggested set of activities intended to introduce remote-sensing to our youngest future scientists. Prompts are provided in the book to these activities through a "Note to teachers and parents." Website includes links to a student's site, and a teacher's guide.

When Echo's old librarian friend is in trouble, Echo and the Bat Pack rush to his home, Castlerock, to help. Now they must solve an ancient mystery.

What is THE most requested bedtime story by forty three million, eight hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and twelve baby bats around the world? That would be The Amazing Adventures of Sam the Bat! Young Sam, safe with his mother in the free-tail bat colony in the Southern California desert, learns all the stories of his tribe. The most famous is the tale of the lost colony, who flew east to escape a drought and never returned. The story says the lost ones found a new home, under a bridge over a river, but no one knows for certain. One fateful day, Sam loses his own colony and home, and thus begins an incredible adventure: wee Sam, the baby bat, goes from the desert to the rainforests of South America, to a five-star hotel in London, to the towers of Notre Dame in Paris, to the other side of the world--only to find that sometimes, home is in the first place you should have looked, and sometimes, the stories are true. "SAM THE BAT is a delightful book that manages at once to teach children about a fascinating and greatly misunderstood species, while holding them under the spell of a touching - and often very funny - story with an appealing hero. I'm sorry I didn't get to read it to my own children." - Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Mirror Kingdoms "SAM's story is a great introduction to the lives of bats around the world, and is a thrilling read. It's a great challenge to imagine life through the eyes of a bat (I've tried), and Allyson Beatrice does so beautifully. Through SAM, Beatrice explores the kindness of strangers, the importance of friends, and the value of family. I would recommend this book to any young person curious about the world and the animals living in it." - Daniel K. Riskin, Assistant Professor of Biology at the City University of New York, and from Animal Planet's Monsters Inside Me and Discovery Channel's Curiosity.