San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Ant
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on ants including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.
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Kidcyber: Ants
This thorough article provides information on the physical characteristics, jobs of ants in a colony, life cycle, nests, and communication.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Ants Go Marching
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students experiment and make observations on a directed graph. The lesson is framed in the context of an ant colony which is in search of the best path to get to food. If an...
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Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia : Ants
A wonderful online encyclopedia of ants. Features close up photographs of ants eating, working, nesting, and living in their underground chambers.
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Live Science: Why Ants Rule the World
This thorough article delves into behavior of ants, the ant family, vampire ants, ant communication and more. Links are provided to other informative ant sites.
Read Works
Read Works: Ants in Action
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about worker, scout, and soldier ants and their functions within the colony. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Desert Usa: Harvester Ants
This article about harvester ants examines their behavior, but it also looks at the role these ants play in mythology, especially in Native American stories, and at the social structure of ant colonies. There is also a link to a related...
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Myrmecology, the Study of Ants
A wealth of topics are covered in this comprehensive site ranging from anatomy, diet, and communications to a history of myrmecology.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Building Ant Bot
Learn how to build a robot that can mimic basic ant walking & running behavior.
Read Works
Read Works: All About Ants
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text different kinds of ants and different roles ants have within their colonies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Iowa State University
Iowa State Entomology: Odorous House Ant
This site focuses on the "Odorous House Ant." It gives details about its description and where it makes its home. Learn more about this fascinating creature by checking out this website.
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University of New Hampshire: Ant Wars!
A description of an experiment on ants which gives preliminary information on how the ants in a colony interact with each other.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Ants
Ants have long fascinated people for the hierarchical nature of their colonies, which in many ways resemble human social structures. They are also known for their intelligence. Some facts and pictures are found here.
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Archibald's Adventure
Help Archibald the house ant collect food for his colony. After foraging outside, he comes into the house, collects food on the floor, and then on the kitchen counter, all the while trying to avoid hazards. Watch out for the pest control...
Mathigon
Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: The Travelling Salesman Problem
This lesson focuses on the traveling salesman problem which involves finding paths through a city without backtracking. While no algorithm has been found to do that for all cities, there are algorithms that help somewhat. They are...
Rice University
Rice University: Eusocial Insects
This site, which is provided for by the Rice University, gives a description of the social aspects of the wasp colonies - division of labour.