Curated OER
Spying on Spiders
Students investigate spiders. In this spiders lesson, students create a habitat for a spider with a jar, twigs, and dirt. Students observe the behavior of the spider and record how they spend their days.
Curated OER
Spiders Have Too Many Legs, Study Finds
Learners explore current events by answering study questions about an article. In this arachnids instructional activity, students read a recently published article which discusses the importance of spiders and their 8 legs. Learners...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Did You Say Spiders?
Contains plans for six thirty-minute lessons that ask students to make response journals and multimedia projects about spiders. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites...
PBS
Pbs Nature: Spider
There are about 35,000 known species of spiders in the world and this research resource site surveys these animals in text and images.