In this unit study we learned about ant anatomy, the ant life cycle, ant jobs, and colonies, types of ants, and ant enemies. I did this unit study with my 1st grader and I recommend it for Kindergarten to 3rd grade.
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| Ant Unit Study |
Day 1 Ant Anatomy
Day 2 Ant Live Cycle
Day 3 Ant Jobs
Day 4 Ant Colony
Day 5 Types of Ants
Day 6 Ant Enemies
Ant Book List
Book can be read by the child or by the parent to the child, depending on the child's reading level.
Books
I used in the lessons...
Tiny
Workers by
Nancy Loewen
The
Life Cycle of an Ant by
Trevor terry & Margaret Linton
Ant
Colony by
Kathy Furgang
Ant
Cities by
Arthur Dorros
Ant
by
Rebecca Stefoff
Giant
Anteater by
Sara Antill
Dear
Deer
by Gene Barretta
The
Ant and the Grasshopper by
Mark White
The
Ants go Marching!
By Dan Crisp
Ants
at the Picnic
by Michael Dahl
Truman's
Aunt Farm
by Jama Kin Rattigan
Other
age appropriate books...
The
Ants Go Marching One by One
by Richard Bernal
One
Hundred Hungry Ants
by Elinor
J. Pinczes
The
Magic School But Gets Ants in its Pants by
Joanna Cole
Little
Black Ant on Park Street by
Janet Halfmann
Look
Inside an Ant Nest by
Megan Cooley Peterson
What's
it like to be an Ant? By
Jinny Johnson
Ant
by
Karen Hartley and Chris Macro
Ant Webvideos
VeggieTales: School House Polka – YouTube
http://www.slideshare.net/bright9977/12-life-lessons-from-tiny-ants-7173883
(12 slides about ants)
Ant Movies
The
Magic School Bus Gets Ants In It's Pants
by Scholastic
1 comment:
THANK YOU for posting this. I'm just planning some units for summer, and this will be perfect! You've already done all the work, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel - hooray! ;)
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