Classroom Noise Monitor🐜 Ant Colony 🐜
When the class is quiet, the ants dig busy tunnels and the colony grows, chamber by chamber. When it gets too loud, the ants stop digging, and if it stays loud, the tunnels start to crumble!
Class goal: Dig all nine chambers before the lesson ends!
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How Ant Colony works
1. Start the dig
Choose a lesson length, press Start Digging, and allow the microphone. The monitor listens for a moment to learn how your room sounds when it is calm.
2. Calm digs the colony
While the class is quiet, the dig crew tunnels deeper and the colony grows chamber by chamber: a seed pantry, nurseries full of eggs, a great hall, all the way down to the queen's chamber.
3. Noise stops the shovels
Too much noise freezes every digger mid-swing, and if it stays loud the tunnels start to crumble. Tip: challenge the class to reach the queen's chamber before the bell, and name a new 'lead digger' each day.
Explore more themes
Traffic Lights
FREEThe classic traffic light noise monitor, full screen! The light stays green and little cars cruise across town while the class is quiet. Too loud turns it red and jams the traffic.
Quiet Jungle
FREEKeep your class quiet and watch a jungle grow full screen! Trees grow when the classroom is calm and wilt when it gets too loud.
Dino Valley
FREEKeep your class quiet and hatch baby dinosaurs from their eggs! Too much noise wakes the volcano and scares the dinos back into their shells.
Focus Mode
FREEA calm, minimal noise level meter with no cartoons: a breathing light grows with silence and pauses when the room gets loud. Made for older students, exams, libraries and study halls.
Butterfly Garden
PROKeep your class quiet and raise nine butterflies from egg to wing! Caterpillars munch, chrysalises ripen and butterflies emerge while the room stays calm: a living life-cycle lesson.
Robot Factory
PROKeep your class quiet and assemble nine little robots on a factory line! The machines pause and amber beacons spin when the room gets loud. Finished robots are never lost.
Snail Race
PROKeep your class quiet and cheer nine snails along the garden racetrack! The snails hide in their shells when the classroom gets too loud. Slow and steady wins.
Bouncy Balls
PROThe classic bouncy balls noise meter, flipped to reward calm! Colorful playground balls bounce while your class stays quiet. Too much noise stops the fun and deflates them.
Pirate Treasure
PROKeep your class quiet and fill a pirate chest with treasure! The ship sails toward the island while the room stays calm, and a storm brews when it gets too loud.
Coral Reef
PROKeep your class quiet and watch a coral reef bloom full screen! Corals grow and fish arrive when the classroom is calm, and the reef bleaches when it gets too loud.
Train Journey
PROKeep your class quiet and ride a steam train across the countryside, station by station! The signal turns red and the train stops when it gets too loud.
Space Launch
PROKeep your class quiet to build, fuel and launch rockets to every planet! The countdown holds when the classroom gets too loud.
Wizard School
PROKeep your class quiet and brew nine glowing magic potions in a wizard classroom! The cauldron fizzles and the magic drains away when it gets too loud.
Fairy Village
PROKeep your class quiet and light up a fairy village of mushroom houses! Glowing windows and fireflies fill the glade, until the wind blows the lights out.
Castle Builders
PROKeep your class quiet and build a castle stone by stone! The builders stop and the scaffolding shakes when the classroom gets too loud.
Winter Aurora
PROKeep your class quiet to build a snowman and make the northern lights bloom! Too much noise kicks up a blizzard that blows the snow away.
Balloon Journey
PROKeep your class quiet and ride a hot air balloon from the fields to the stars! The balloon sinks when the classroom gets too loud.
Or head back to the classroom noise monitor homepage for the full overview and FAQ.
Ant Colony questions
Is Ant Colony free to use?
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Ant Colony is a Pro theme. Lifetime Pro is a one-time $20 payment that unlocks every theme, unlimited session time, and priority support. You can try the monitor for free first with the Quiet Jungle, Dino Valley, Traffic Lights, and Focus Mode themes.
Can the class lose progress in Ant Colony?
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Yes: if the room stays loud for too long the tunnels crumble and the chambers slowly close back up, so there is a real reason to bring the calm back quickly. A few seconds of quiet gets the crew digging again.
What age group is Ant Colony best for?
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Ant Colony works across elementary classrooms from about grade 1 to grade 6, and the cutaway anthill doubles as a lovely science tie-in for lessons about insects, habitats and teamwork.