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Gets Ants in Its Pants

From The Magic School Bus · 1994

Gets Ants in Its Pants
26 minK1st2nd3rdScience
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Summary

Keesha shrinks the class to ant size for a science-fair film about social animals. They discover how an ant colony works together like one big team.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Keesha shrinks the class to ant size for a science-fair film about social animals.

  1. What jobs do different ants do in a colony?
  2. How do ants find food and tell others about it?
  3. Why is working together good for the whole colony?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: colony, insect, cooperate.

Try it: Describe three jobs ants share and how each one helps the colony.

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