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Danielle explaining the process of colouring ants : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. Danielle explaining the process of colouring ants. Danielle Mills-Waterfield walks us through how she does her ant illustrations for the School of Ants in this blog post. As a non-artist myself, I find this so fascinating! First is the set up. Now I get onto what I think is the most enjoyable step – the colour and detail! Start building up layers. Put the first colour in the absolute darkest areas, in this case the blackest black. Now I go over...
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Events : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. School of Ants at the Alice Springs Desert SMART EcoFair. August 19, 2015 11:23 pm. School of Ants has recently been exploring the ants of arid Australia, and sharing ant stories with those at the Alice. School of Ants at The Planting festival, Woodfordia. June 9, 2015 10:47 am. School of Ants teamed up with Australian ant Art at The Planting festival held at the iconic Woodfordia this long weekend. SUMMER VOLUNTEER DAYS at School of Ants.
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Education : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. Learn about ants; their diversity, distribution and diet in Australia, and their role in nature as well as in our everyday lives. This project is a great environmental education initiative for Australian citizens, immersing them in the natural world to learn about ants; their diversity, distribution in Australia, and their role in nature as well as in our everyday lives. Our CODE OF CONDUCT. Make your own ant antennae. Educational resources upper p...
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Participate : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. It’s easy to be a citizen scientist. See our intro video for information on the project set up and data collection. Here in Australia we’re interested in knowing what type of food ants prefer at this time of year in both green and paved areas. There are 3 main steps involved. There is just 3 simple steps. For the School of Ants involves being outdoors! What a joy to learn outside! To download the instructions and data sheet now. After you have comp...
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Ant News : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. We skittered around Australia in 2015. May 19, 2016 11:18 pm. We ventured out of our nest in Armidale in 2015 and skittered around a big part of Australia. The epic ant trail. School of Ants citizen science workshops contribute to biodiversity knowledge and inspire action. March 2, 2016 10:50 am. The last weekend in February was full of brain exploding ideas, networking and contributions to citizen science projects for 40 participants. Volunteers a...
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School of Ants at The Planting festival, Woodfordia : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. School of Ants at The Planting festival, Woodfordia. School of Ants teamed up with Australian ant Art at The Planting festival. Held at the iconic Woodfordia. While Kirsti revealed to people the world of ants that exists above ground, Chris and Stephen from Australian Ant Art. Captured imaginations with a multitude of twisty, turny aluminium nest casts, mostly the subterranean homes of the common Australian meat ant. But those who did participated ...
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Our Team : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. Kirsti is an ant ecologist and science educator at University of New England. Associate Professor Nigel Andrew. Mark is an evolutionary biologist, who teaches evolution and animal behaviour at the University of Melbourne. Melissa is also an artist in residence with School of Ants. Dr Elizabeth Broese van Groenou. Over the past 15 years Liz worked as an environmental consulant on a number of biodiversity assessment and vegetation management projects...
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Links & Resources : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. Links & Resources. Links to useful and interesting ant sites. AntWiki, your most up to date and comprehensive site on ants – http:/ www.antwiki.org/wiki/Main Page. AntWeb – http:/ www.antweb.org/. School of Ants in the US – http:/ schoolofants.org/. AntARK TV YouTube channel – http:/ www.youtube.com/user/antARKTV. Alex Wild photography – http:/ www.alexanderwild.com/. The Global Ant Project – http:/ gap.entclub.org/index.html. Links & Resources.
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Our new illustrators : School of Ants Australia
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Links & Resources. Resources & Information For Teachers. School of Ants has some new team members, including two very talented student illustrators. Danielle and Melissa started working with School of Ants as volunteers over summer, where their talents and interest in biological illustrations became clear. So come 2015 they have integrated their love of drawing with their degree and making their contributions official. To help me look at and analyze the ants, I need to see them close up! I choose an area...