Extensions Ants on a Twig, Project W.I.L.D. Show - excerpts from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids!" Activity 1 - for higher grade levels use smaller teams; 3 or more of the same obstacles Create paper bag ant puppets and use them in a play. Use the template provided with paper plates to create ant hats. Make a book using "The Ants go marching" rhyming with the numbers. Using construction paper, draw a large wall size colony, label each area and place ants in different rooms. Have the students write or tell a sequel adventure to Two Bad Ants. Adapt the third grade lesson Me and My Family to learn more about family life and communities using ants. Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes. Obstacle: anything that stands in the way. Overcome: to do something in spite of extra difficulties. (To master an obstacle.) Predict: to guess what you believe will happen. Bibliography Banner, Angela and Bryan Ward. Ant and Bee: Alphabetical Story for Tiny Tots. New York: Kaye & Ward, 1972 Cameron, Polly. I Can't Said the Ant. Illustrated by the author. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1961 Carrick, Malcolm. I Can Squash Elephants. New York: Viking Press, 1978 Chinery, Michael. Ants (Life Story). Mahway, NJ: Troll Associates, 1991 Clay, Pat and Helen. Ants. London: A.& C. Black, 1984 Darby, Gene. Jerry Finds Ants. Austin, TX: Steck Vaughin Co., 1964 Dethier, V.G. The Ant Heap. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1979 Dorros, Arthur. Ant Cities. Book and cassette. Illustrated by the author. New York: Harper Trophy/Harper Collins, 1987 Fischer-Nagle, Heiderose, and Andreas. An Ant Colony. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1989 Freschet, Bernice. The Ants Go Marching. Illustrated by Stefan Martin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973 Glenn, George S. Ant Rancher's Handbook. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990 Greenland, Caroline. Getting to Know Nature's Children: Ants. Ontario, Canada: Grolier Educational Corporation, USA. Hoke, Helen. Ants (A First Book). New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1970. Hopf, Alice L. Biography of an Ant. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974 Hutchins, Pat. Happy Birthday, Sam. New York: Puffin Books, Viking Penguin, 1978. Hutchins, Pat. You'll Soon Grow Into Theirs, Titch. New York: MacMillan Company, 1971 Hutchins, Ross E. A Look at Ants. Illustrated by the author. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1978 Kraus, Ruth. The Carrot Seed. New York: Harper and Row, 1945 Lavine, Sigmund A. Wonders of the Anthill. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1960 Lionni, Leo. Swimmy. New York: Random House, 1963 Lvenn, Nancy. Nessa's Fish. New York: Atheneum, 1990 Martin, Bill. Ants Underground. Sound recording with book. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britanica Education Corp., 1975 Myrick, Mildred. Ants Are Fun. New York: Harper and Row, 1968 O'Toole, Christopher. Discovering Ants. New York: The Bookwright Press, 1986 Overbeck, Cynthia. Ants. Minneapolis: Lerner Natural Science, 1982 Peet, Bill. The Ant and the Elephant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972 Pluckrose, Henry. Ants. Illustrated by Tony Waver and David Cook. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 Project W.I.L.D Elementary Activity Guide, Boulder, CO: Western Regional Environmental Education Council, 80302, 1983 Ryan, Will (adapted by). Grasshopper and the Ant: An Aesop Fable. With cassette. Chatsworth, CA: Alchemy Communications, 1987 Sheridan John. How Ants Live. Bethell, WA: Wright Group, 1992 Sushiela, LC. Ant and the Grasshopper: A Love Story. Hollywood, CA: Running Water, 1990 Suzuki, David. Looking at Insects. New York: Warner Books, 1987 Van Allsburg, Chris. Two Bad Ants. Illustrated by the author. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972 Wang, Mary L. Ant and the Dove. Chicago: Children's Press, 1989 Zolotow, Charlotte. I Like to be Little. New York: Harper & Row, 1987

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