by Jeannette Vidrio

Introduction:
This lesson is incorporated into a unit on Ants. This lesson may be done in the beginning of the unit as a Social Studies lesson. The lesson incorporates literature and language through vocabulary. The four learning modalities included in this lesson are visual, verbal, auditory, and fine motor skills. In this lesson students will understand that they are a significant part of this world and must work cooperatively with others to succeed. Students should be aware of what their responsibilities, as citizens, are within the many communities they are a part of including, school, neighborhood and most importantly their family community. Students should also know that in order for these communities to function properly they must work cooperatively in order to prosper. The focus of the lesson is to use ant communities and how their members work cooperatively to survive and how their communities compliment student culture and knowledge of their own family communities. Students will identify responsibilities their family members have as well as what responsibilities the students have or how they cooperatively interact within their family community. It allows students to explore themselves as citizens and workers of a cooperative family unit.