The Search for Endangered Bats

In Social Studies, students received mission instructions and were given a clue each day to help identify the state in which the colony was located. They applied map reading and coding skills to these clues to narrow down possible locations, for instance by eliminating states that border an ocean or another country or had a certain number of farms. They eventually deduced that the bat colony was located in a state that borders four other states and the Great Lakes. The students were then able to narrow down the location to one of two states and each student took a guess. The final clue provided map coordinates which enabled our budding chiropterologists to use Google Earth to locate the colony. The mission was a success and the bats were saved! #STEMatSLS