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Ashley Patterson ECE 251 Activity: Lesson Plan: Activity Name: Approximate Length of Experience

This lesson plan outlines an activity to teach 4-year-olds about ants. The activity involves showing the children live ants, describing their appearance and body parts, explaining that ants live underground and build tunnels, and having the children help set up an ant farm to observe the ants. The goal is for the children to become more familiar with ants and what they do underground. The lesson plan provides objectives, materials, procedures, extensions, and evaluation methods for the ant farm activity.

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Ashley Patterson ECE 251 Activity: Lesson Plan: Activity Name: Approximate Length of Experience

This lesson plan outlines an activity to teach 4-year-olds about ants. The activity involves showing the children live ants, describing their appearance and body parts, explaining that ants live underground and build tunnels, and having the children help set up an ant farm to observe the ants. The goal is for the children to become more familiar with ants and what they do underground. The lesson plan provides objectives, materials, procedures, extensions, and evaluation methods for the ant farm activity.

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Ashley

Patterson

ECE 251

Activity: Lesson Plan

Activity Name: Ant Farm

Approximate Length of Experience: 10-20 minutes (depending on the

children’s interest)

Age and Number of Children: 10 four year olds

Goal: To become more aware/familiar with ants and what they do

underground.

Domain: Cognitive

Content:

1.Fact: What does an ant look like?

Vocabulary: six legs, head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, and

mandible.

2.Fact: How can we see what they do underground?

Vocabulary: ant farm, sand, sandwich

Objectives: Participation in this activity will increase the child’s ability to

1. Describe at least two parts of an ant.


2. Explain why ants like to live underground.

3. Be able to be gentle with ants and other insects and show an

awareness of their importance in the environment.

4. Materials: ants, an ant farm sandwich (thin plexiglass terrarium),

sand, ant food, water.

5. Procedure: Begin the lesson by showing the children the ants. Have

the children tell what they observe about the appearance of the ants.

Talk about the different parts of the ant: head, thorax, abdomen,

antennae and mandible. What color are the ants? How many legs do

they have, etc. Next, ask the children where the ants live. Explain

that they live in many different places but the ants that we are

looking at now live underground and explain why. Show pictures of

how they dig tunnels and explain that building an ant farm is a good

way to see what the ants do underground. Then show the children

the materials that are needed for the ant farm, explaining each piece

as you go along. The sandwich is thin so we can watch them dig, the

sand is for them to dig in, they need food and water too, etc. Have

the children carefully fill the sandwich with sand. Have the children

place a small mixture of honey and water on a small piece of foil and
place it in the sandwich. Release the ants into the sandwich. Allow

enough time for the children to watch and observe what the ants do

when released. (The ant farm can be maintained for however long

the children are interested in it and then the ants can be released

into the school’s garden.)

Extension: Time and children's interest permitting, proceed to the

following: Show pictures of different kinds of ants and where they live. How

are these ants different than the ones that are in our ant farm?

(convergent)

Simplification: Substitute lower level questions for more difficult questions,

substitute difficult vocabulary for more simple vocabulary.

Evaluation: Anecdotal observation

What Next: If this lesson goes well, the focus of the next lesson will be on

why ants are good for our garden.

Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used:

Answer the following question: Did you use the best categories of

questions or could you have improved by using different categories?

- I chose the best type of questions (narrow) for the category chosen. They

are the most basic questions that will build a good foundation for a better
understanding of the importance of insects and how they help the

environment.

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