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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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- 3rd - 6th
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Students review the information they gathered on different websites to write a poem about spiders. They use other websites to gain more information if needed. They share their poem with the class. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students begin their introduction to spiders by sharing what they already know about them. In groups, they compare and contrast spiders to insects and label a diagram of their body parts. They discuss a spider's role in an ecosystem and examine their life cycle. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students are introduced to the characteristics of spiders. In groups, they compare and contrast spiders to different insects to discover spiders are not an insect at all. In groups, they create a model of a spider and discuss its role as a predator. Using this information, they identify the needs of all animals and their adaptations to meet them. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students study spiders. In this spider lesson plan, students divide into four study groups, research their topic, and give a report over their findings. The four topics are Characteristics of spiders, life cycles of spiders, fun facts and folklore about spiders, and humans and spiders.
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