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- 2nd
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Students are given a fact sheet about spiders with photographs. Each student be responsible for one section of the fact sheet to read and summarize for the class. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students listen to the story entitled, Are You a Spider?, by Cara DiFrango and Lisa Mikolajczyk. They practice a finger play and participate in an art project using modeling clay to learn the parts of a spider. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 9th
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Students conduct online research to learn more information about spiders. They take a current issue of their local newspaper and add spiders to the pictures where spiders might live. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students complete a unit on the differences between a spider and an insect. They conduct Internet research, create a spider and write a story about it, draw a spider web, make honeybee fingerprints, describe an ant colony, and create a drawing of a picture of an ant farm. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students complete a unit on insects and spiders. They explore various websites, identify and label spider and insect body parts, compare/contrast spiders and insects, identify five butterfly or moth species found in their state, and describe an ant colony. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore the characteristics, life cycle, and habitat of the spider. They view the Powerpoint presentation about Spiders and discuss webs then write in Journals about how a spider's life is different from ours and how each feels about spiders now. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be found at their school site. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast different spider species that they capture and maintain in the classroom for several days. They identify and research the species characteristics and living requirements then conduct an experiment on spider behavior. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine seven spiders and put them into two or three groups based on their structural similarities. In groups, they create a cladogram proposing possible ancestral relationships. Students design an experiment related to their spiders' behavior and describe it in detail. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students examine and compare information about spiders. They recite two spider nursery rhymes, brainstorm what they know about spiders, complete an online scavenger hunt, and participate in a spider-related game show. As a culminating activity students create a computer slideshow about spiders. Full Review »
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