Purpose: To learn the four stages of an ant’s four stages of growth
Book(s) read:
Ruth Berman Ants pages 18-23. (Chapter 2: Changes)
Trevor Terry and Margaret Linton The Life Cycle of an Ant pages 14-19.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the four stages of the life of the growth of an ant.
- Learn the vocabularies related to ants’ stages of growth.
- Able to illustrate the ants’ four stages of growth.
- Reinforce the truth that God is Creator
Lessons
- Learn the four stages of the life of the growth of an ant
Tool 1: Reading
Ruth Berman Ants pages pages 18-23. (Chapter 2: Changes)
Trevor Terry and Margaret Linton The Life Cycle of an Ant pages 14-19.
Tool 2: Instruction
First stage: Egg
Usually for fourteen days
Second stage: Larva
This is after the ant hatch out of the egg.
Usually at this stage for up to 20 days.
White in color.
They are “wormlike:” They are soft and have no legs, no eyes.
Need other worker ants to protect and feed it.
Shed skin up to 4 or 5 times.
Third stage: Pupa
A cocoon type stage.
Usually moved to an upper part of the anthill than when it is an egg or larva.
Ants can be at this stage for two or three weeks.
Fourth stage: Adult
Usually what we think of what ants looks like.
Final stage of what an adult ant looks like.
Tool 3: Questions
How many stages of growth does an ant have? Answer: 4.
What are the four stages?
- Learn the vocabularies related to ants’ life cycle
(Note: Write down the vocabularies on a white board)
Larvas: “Ants in the second stage of their growth. Larvas look like white worms (Ruth Berman Ants, 47).
Molting: When an ant “gets too big for its skin, the old skin comes off and a new skin grows” (Trevor Terry and Margaret Linton The Life Cycle of an Ant, 31).
Pupa: “A resting stage when a larva changes into an adult insect” (Ruth Berman Ants, 47).
3. Final Drawing activity to reinforce lessons
Tool 1: Drawing
Have four blocks to draw in.
First block draw the first stage of an ant’s life: egg.
Second block draw the second stage of an ant’s life: Larva.
Third block draw the third stage of an ant’s life: Pupa.
Fourth block draw the fourth stage of an ant’s life: Adult.
Switch paper and see the similarities and differences in one another’s drawings.
- Reinforce the truth that God is Creator
Tool 1: Bible
“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” (Hebrews 11:3)
This verse talks about God creating the world.
The world was created “by the word of God’
Ants which is also a part of God’s World is created by God!
Tool 2: Questions
How is it amazing that God created the life cycles of ants?
Remember the pupa stage of an ant life cycle? We don’t get to see the changes inside the pupa. In some ways is not that like how God created the world with things that are not visible to us?
Review: Share what did you learn today.
and don’t forget the fun little counting song to be sung at the end of the lesson…”the ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah. The ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah, the ants go marching one by one, while the little one now has so much fun and they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain…boom boom boom 🙂
LOL!!! I should have incorporated that into the lesson and have my kids sang that when I was do this series (I finished it a few weeks ago, it’s delayed when I post it on the blog).
it may have been best to have missed it as it can be one of those things stuck in one’s head…boom, boom, boom……as their number just keep growing 🙂
Thank you for reminding us of the little miracles all around us!
You’re welcome! It’s incredible how much changes Ants go through before they are an adult, you can’t say it just happen by chance…
This is wonderful brother, absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for putting this together!
You’re welcome! This is a four part series and I plan to post it every Wednesday!
Woohoo!!! Another homeschooling series from Pastor Jim? Christmas morning all over again!
God’s wonder to behold
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