(Note: This is the final lesson for this Home School Lesson series on Ants for 4-5 year olds!)
Purpose: In this lesson we will introduce various interactive ways to learn and to reinforce what we have learn from the previous four lessons about ants.
Supplies:
Youtube videos (link below)
Blankets
Perfume/spray deodorant/scent spray
Learning Objectives:
- Watch various videos on ants.
- Acting out as an ant
- Review all caterpillar’s lessons.
Lessons
1. Watch various videos on ants
Tool 1: Youtube Videos
Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ploW2KEUmLw
Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXUCUvcscXs
Link 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASrmm4BUJk
Link 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocDg_TjhzQ
Link 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CK9omh5mw
Tool 2: Questions
Which videos was your favorite?
What are somethings you learned from the videos?
2. Acting out as an ant
This is to act out the four stages of a caterpillar and butterfly’s life.
Stage 1: Using a blanket act out being an egg by huddling into a ball covered with a blanket.
Transition: Act out being a baby ant hatching from one’s egg.
Stage 2: Using a blanket wrapping up one’s leg and feet while laying down act like a larvae crawling.
Stage 3: Using blanket act out being an ant forming a pupa.
Transition: Act out being an adult ant breaking out of chrysalis.
Stage 4: Act like an adult ant.
This is to act out the various body parts and activity of an adult worker ants.
Act 1: Act like an ant carrying food with a blanket rolled up into a ball and the child told to hold onto to it with his or her mouth. Note how difficult it is to hold it with one’s teeth and mouth.
Act 2: Act like an ant having mandibles (bigger jaws) by having two hands by one one’s cheek. Now carry the rolled up blanket rolled into a ball again. Note the differences and God’s given gift to ants of having mandibles.
Act 3: Follow the ant trail. Spray a scent trail and have the kids line up crawling and following the spray. This is to mimic an ant trail.
3. Review all caterpillar’s lessons
Use lesson plans from previous lessons to review.
Ask the question: What new things did they learn?
Quiz:
What are the four stages of growth of ants?
What are the body parts of ants again?
(Review vocabulary)
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Thanks, Jim. It was fun focusing on this tiny creature that we hardly pay attention to…another miracle of God’s creation.
Yep! It’s amazing to study God’s creation and see the wonder of how things work and operate. Like you said, so much miracles of God’s creation around us that we hardly pay attention to. Psalm 19 really is appropriate here…hope you have a good day at work listening to good solid stuff! Well, also not so solid stuff that you listen to critique and analyze too…
Thanks, Jim. Yup, Psalm 19 is a good one! I’ve been able to listen to a few things as I type away. Not a bad gig! 🙂 Hope you’re having a good day, too!
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You’re very welcome Brother Jim 👍😎
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Right now I have some of these interesting little creatures in my hoop house and really don’t want them there.
[…] Lesson 5: Interactive Learning […]
Found this on Duck Duck Go:
If you collect 100 ants black and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar, nothing will happen.
But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other.
The reds believe that black are the enemy, while the black believe that the reds are the enemy, when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.
The same is true in society.
Men vs Women
Black vs Whites
Faith vs Science
Young vs Old
Etc…
Before we fight each other, we should ask ourselves:
Who shook the jar?