The Adventures 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.

Echo needs his new friends to help him uncover who's been searching for treasure in the cemetery.

This is a children's book with colored illustrations. It is the story of a bat named Bob. Bob lived high on a hill overlooking the city. The lights of the city allure him, so he leaves his home in the country and goes to the city. Though quite different than living in the country, Bob decided he just might like living in the city.

"Tuttle's account forever changes the way we see these poorly understood yet fascinating cratures." -- page 4 of cover.