Ms Frizzle's class needs to shrink themselves to travel through an ant hill, to find the star for their project in the Science Fair. They find ants doing different tasks and by the end of the field trip the kids discover that ants communicate and work together to help one another live.

Introduces, in question and answer format, the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of ants.

Retells the fable about an industrious ant that busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.

The familiar Aesop fable is performed by a troupe of animal actors.

"No animal can fight a column of army ants . . . Any creature in their path has to run for its life. The unlucky ones are caught." This investigation of flesh-eating killer ants describes army ants, driver ants, fire ants, and bulldog ants.

Be it tied to a balloon, or kite, or hanging a picture, or stringing a banjo or a mop, a bird explains to an ant how long a string needs to be.

A small red ant finds a crumb in a Mexican cornfield, but she is afraid that she lacks the strength to move it herself and goes off to find an animal that can.