🦇 Little brown bat report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the little brown bat page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the little brown bat
Myotis lucifugus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 9.1 to 11 in (23 to 28 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 0.5 oz (14 g) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 6.5 years |
Read about it
Little brown bats fly at night. They hang upside down to sleep. They eat lots of bugs, like mosquitoes.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Lassen Volcanic, nps.gov/lavo/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Jewel Cave, nps.gov/jeca/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the little brown bat
Myotis lucifugus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 9.1 to 11 in (23 to 28 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 0.5 oz (14 g) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 6.5 years |
Read about it
A little brown bat makes clicks and squeaks too high for people to hear and listens for the echoes that bounce back from insects, which is how it finds them in the dark. In the daytime it sleeps hanging upside down in a hidden, dark place such as a barn, a cave or a hollow tree.
Where it lives (its habitat):
What it eats:
How its body helps it live there:
My favorite fact:
A question I still have:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Lassen Volcanic, nps.gov/lavo/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Jewel Cave, nps.gov/jeca/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the little brown bat
Myotis lucifugus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 9.1 to 11 in (23 to 28 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 0.5 oz (14 g) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 6.5 years |
Read about it
Bats are not blind: they see well, but they also use echoes to find tiny insects in the dark. A little brown bat eats a great many insects each night, which helps protect gardens and crops. In winter, when insects are gone, bats hibernate in caves. A disease called white-nose syndrome, caused by a fungus that grows on hibernating bats, has made their numbers fall in many places, so scientists are working on ways to treat it and people protect the caves where bats sleep.
Habitat and range: where on Earth, and what the place is like:
Diet: what it eats, and what might eat it:
Adaptations: two ways its body or habits help it survive:
Is it in danger? Why or why not?:
Compare it with another animal you know:
Bibliography: write each source below as site, page title, date checked:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Lassen Volcanic, nps.gov/lavo/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Jewel Cave, nps.gov/jeca/learn/nature/bats.htm, checked 2026-10-30