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Title:
| Animals: Ants |
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Description:
| These sites are about ants and their colonies, life cycle, anatomy, habitat, and more. Includes several activity ideas and instructions for building an ant habitat. There are also online videos, audio clips, and quizzes. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Online Encyclopedia
This detailed site includes an encyclopedia of ants, terminology, and a species listing. Also includes many interesting illustrations.
Behavior of Real Ants
This page has diagrams showing the behavior of ants as they move toward a food source.
ZoomSchool
This is a labeled illustration of an ant's anatomy that you can print out.
Ant Talk
This short article explains how ants communicate with each other.
Online Ants
Watch this movies that shows the movement of ants. Requires QuickTime.
Ants in its Pants
Follow the instruction to make an indoor home for ants and then observe them. Includes a worksheet you can print out.
All about Ants
This lesson has some activity ideas on ants, including making an ant's body. There is also a list of recommended books on ants.
Build a Bug
Play this online interactive game and learn the parts of an ant's body. This game helps show the difference between the anatomy of ants and other bugs.
Go to the Ant
View animated illustrations, colorful pictures, and learn more about the life style of ants.
Ants Architecture
This lesson plan uses a KWL chart and focuses on the types of shelters ants build and the behavior of these insects.
"Antz" and "A Bug's Life"
This site is about two movies about ants. There are background resources, word explanations with photo illustrations, and some discussion questions on the ants.
Drawing Lesson
The site teaches you how to draw an ant.
Ants Go Marching
Read this report from "Time for Kids" which focuses on ants.
Amazing Facts
Read a short list of amazing facts about ants.
Ant Nests
Read about ants and how they build their nests.
Impressive Ant Nests
This site introduces some ant nests and includes photographs.
Kid's Facts
This site has some photographs of ants and some ant facts.
Ants, Ants and More Ants
Try some of these cross-curriculum activities on ants.
The Queen's Empire
This site has instructions for creating an ant habitat. Includes some questions.
FactMonster
This is an encyclopedia entry about ants. Click on the links at the bottom, such as "Social Organization," to learn more.
Ants Have it
Click on the icon of a page to open a pdf with three pages. Learn how to create an ant's body from candy.
Ants and their Foods
This is a PowerPoint presentation about ants and their foods. This is a student-created report.
Ant Society
This is a PowerPoint presentation on ants and their social structure. This is a student-created report.
Smell of Ants
This is a PowerPoint presentation that shows the results of experiments on the smell of ants. This is a student-created report.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 2.3, 3.5, 3, 5, 3
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