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Books - ants insects (DRC, school & public libraries)

DVD- Ant Bodies

        MSB - Gets Ants in their pants

Youtube -

• Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle BBC Wildlife
• (2:53 mn.)
• Ant hill  (1:52 min)
• Ants subterranean structures revealed (3:16 min)
• The Ants Go Marching

Plastic ants in rice, children estimate number of ants in an area, find and then count.

Esitmation jar - add plastic ants each day for children to estimate and then count number of ants

Ants in a nest - muffin tin with raisins in each cup - children must match number of plastic ants to each cup of raisins (no eating of raisins :))

Ants on a log - celery, cheez whiz or peanut butter with raisins on top

Ants in your pants - feet - grapes, pants - chunks of banana, body - peanut butter, ants - raisins sprinkled on top

KWL - Know   Wonder   Learn chart

Generate information prior to unit of study and then add and adapt ideas as learn more info through books, etc.

Vocabulary - colony, mandible, antennae, thorax, waist, abdomen, larvae, pupa, queen, various types of ants

Science

- ant labels key

- ant labels student

 photo of ant hill to come

-ant life cycle -student

ant life cycle - key

ant pieces for life cycle

The Ant body - lable parts 

Directed Draw - same ant as "The Ant Body" above

Ant Life Cycle - cut and paste pictures of ant life cycle in correct order

Build an ant hill - supplies - mainlla tag, brown const. paper, pine/fir needles, dirt, plastic ants & rice(larvae)

Glue domed brown paper onto tag base, glue needles & dirt on brown paper, glue ants & rice on exterior of ant hill. (We said there was an emergency evacuation as to why they would be outside the hill)

Art

- create an ant

Karen Pierce &

Sue Trebett

Design your own ant -black construction paper for ant body, we did a  directed draw of ant. Children add clothing with crepe paper, wallpaper, ribbon etc. and put on class mural of Ant Colony.

Karen Pierce &

Sue Trebett

Movement activities - to THE ANTS GO MARCHING

Ant Game - Ant hill is safe spot, Special Helper is Queen, others that need to be "caught" are the different types of ants - guard, nursery, foreger, etc.