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Students expand their knowledge of spiders. By creating a model of a spider, students recognize differences between spiders and insects and determine that a spider is not an insect. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students participate in a variety of cross-curriculur activities in order to explore spiders. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students state reasons why spiders are grouped in specific categories, including what distinguishes a spider from an insect. They report on their observations of the spiders. They illustrate their report with drawings in their journals. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students see that spiders catch and eat their prey and are also caught and eaten by their enemies. They sort the pictures into animals that spiders eat, those they do not eat, and those that are spiders. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students see that spiders have a life cycle, and reproduce by laying many eggs. We can count by ones, twos, fives, or as many as we want. They make two lists of animals on a chart. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore the different types of enemies that spiders have. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore the different habitats of spiders. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students make cookie spiders using a recipe and applying their prior knowledge of the body parts of a spider. They write a "how to" paragraph explaining the procedure for making the cookies after completing a pre-writing graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students research interesting spider facts and conduct a survey to find out who does and does not like spiders. They create a class slideshow in which they draw a picture of a spider and write three sentences about their research. They post the information on the Internet. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students see how a spider spins her webs. They use yarn, pipe cleaners, eyes and glue to make the spider. For the web, students stand in a circle. They throw the ball of yarn across the circle. This begins the nice web shape. Students discuss how spiders make webs, where they find webs and what the web is made out off. These are highly engaging activities for the students! Full Review »