Animals: Ants
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| 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 online videos, audio clips, and quizzes. There is also a link to eThemes resource on insects. |
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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.
Enchanted Learning: Ant Anatomy
This is a labeled illustration of an ant's anatomy that you can print out. NOTE: This site contains Google banner ads.
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.
Scholastic: 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. NOTE: This site contains ads.
Scholastic: 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. NOTE: This site contains ads.
Scholastic: 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. NOTE: Game requires Shockwave.
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. NOTE: This site contains ads.
"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.
Ant Nests
Read about ants and how they build their nests.
Impressive Ant Nests
This site introduces some ant nests and includes photographs.
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. NOTE: Site contains ads.
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. NOTE: Site contains ads.
Pestworld Ant Facts
Learn more about ants in general, as well as specific features of five different types of ants.
eThemes Resource: Animals: Insects
Explore these websites about insects and their relatives. Included are picture galleries of different types of insects, insect themed activities and games, and insect recipes. There are also online videos, audio clips, and quizzes. Included are eThemes resources on ants, bees, ladybugs, butterflies, silkworms, and grasshoppers.
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Education Standards:
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IL Standards:
12.4.02, 12.4.04, 12.4.05, 12.4.09
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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