Green Week - Empire of the Ants

In our inaugural Green Week, we set off on a mini-inquiry about... ants. This topic was decided upon through a democratic process, so it reflects the interests of the children of Room 17.



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Room 17 wondered about a lot of things. Mostly, though, we wondered...
How are ant nests made and how do they work?

We sketched ant holes, took videos of ants carrying dirt out of tunnels and watched videos about tunnel-making. We then tried to find out what goes on in a nest and what ants do for a job!


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Some students observed that ants were exiting their hole with small rocks in their mandibles. They decided that this was how ant nests were tunnelled.


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