F-ANT-astic+Ants

=__F-ANT-astic Ants__=
 * [[image:ant.jpg width="152" height="155"]] || =Crawling around the Allen Centre ....=

All our ants have escaped!
|| Human and ant communities have lots in common - builders, undertakers, playcentres, hospitals, nurseries, armies and cleaners....

Feed them tiny bits of food, eye-dropper-water and grains of sand and soil. Fill in the Ant Diary with everything you notice and be amazed at this extraordinary tiny community.
 * Watch the Allen Centre Ants at work...**


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|| ==Junior Challenge!==

Earn your first Library Smile!
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The Ant Farm Workshop is underway!

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 * [[image:smile.jpg]] || ====**V****isit The Workshop to see Emma, Samantha, Tessa,**====

**Now to find the ants....**
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=Explore further....=
 * [[image:ants_c.GIF]]

[|Ant Colony with heaps of jobs!]
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 * [|Peep into an Ant Kingdom]** ||
 * [[image:ants_game.jpg width="247" height="232"]]

[|Amazing Ants Game]
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[|Ant Encylopedia]
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 * [[image:ants_mob3.gif width="220" height="478"]] || ==Ants and M.C. Escher: //Moebius Strip II//==

This is one of M.C. Eschers optical illusions. It's based on a **Mobius Strip**. The Mobius Strip was named after a mathematician, Ferdinand Mobius who invented it in 1858.

The painting shows an endless ring-shaped band with **2 surfaces** - one inside and one outside. Yet on this strip nine red ants crawl after each other and travel the front side as well as the reverse side. Therefore the strip has **only 1 surface.

Question: Why did the ants cross the road? Answer: To get to the same side.** ||


 * [[image:mobius_strip.jpg width="279" height="383"]]

//"A Mathematician confided That a Mobius band is one-sided. And you'll get quite a laugh, If you cut one in half, For it stays in one piece when divided.//"


 * Find out how....**

[|Make a Mobius Strip]
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The Klein Bottle:
2 Mobius strips joined together make this famous bottle.

The inside of the bottle is on the ouside. Hmmm ... that means it hasn't any volume at all! ||