Stellaluna

Lesson Summary

Design a device to help the bats or birds

Stellaluna, the bat, gets separated from her mother, and is befriended by a family of birds who teach her how to behave like a bird. She later learns that birds and bats are quite different and can’t always do the same things (even if they want to). 

Design and build a device that will help the birds or Stellaluna do something that their inherited characteristics don’t normally allow them to do (i.e. help the birds to fly at night).

STE or Math Standards

• Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits:
  3-LS3-2. Distinguish between inherited characteristics and those characteristics that result from a direct interaction with the environment. Give examples of characteristics of living organisms that are influenced by both inheritance and the environment.

ELA Standards

• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
  SL3.4 – Report on a topic, text, or solution to a mathematical problem, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace and using appropriate vocabulary.

Video

Stellaluna read by Pamela Reed