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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students use the computer to simulate how a spider weaves its web, generate a word list that describes spiders and their actions, and create short stories about spiders. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders are observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate how spiders spin their webs. They use the computer to simulate how a spider weaves its web and then generate a word list that describes spiders and their actions to create short stories about spiders. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students utilize their own drawings of spiders to analyze and sort the attributes that each student drew. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore the different habitats of spiders. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 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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