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Title: Food Preference Inquiry


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Food Preference Inquiry
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Food preference inquiry
  • Create your own hypothesis about the food
    preference of ants
  • Example When offered cornbread, honey and dead
    mealworms, my ants will feed equally on all three
    food substances

3
Protocol
  • Locate an ant feeding trail
  • Place a small rectangle of plywood near the trail
  • Put equal amounts of the three food substances on
    the plywood
  • Come back later in the day to observe
  • The same protocol can be used in the classroom in
    an ant farm

4
Data collection
  • Record data after ants locate the feeding area
  • Count the number of ants visiting each food for a
    ten minute period
  • Have three teams of students make similar
    observations
  • Have students observe the ants to determine if
    they are all the same

5
Reporting findings
  • Have students average the number of ants visiting
    each food substance
  • Ask students what the results suggest about their
    hypothesis
  • Based on their results, encourage students to
    speculate about what other foods their ants might
    like (students can conduct another inquiry to
    test their theories)

6
Conclusions
  • Most ant species will show distinct differences
    in food choice experiments
  • Have students observe the ant feeding trails to
    observe their natural food source
  • Consider similarities in their natural food and
    the food chosen in the preference test
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