Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Spider's Web" by Maurice Baring
The full text of the short story "The Spider's Web" by Maurice Baring. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Spiders
An in-depth description of spiders, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. [2 min, 22 sec]
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Does a Spider Need a Web to Catch Its Prey?
People are often fascinated by spiders creating their webs if they can catch a glimpse with the right lighting. Then there are the times people might get tangled in a web unintentionally. What do spiders do with those webs? Are they...
Burke Museum
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture: The Spider Myths Site
Are spiders insects? Do you really swallow spiders while you're sleeping? Myths and questions related to spiders are addressed on this site. Links to additional information can also be found here.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Spider Web Making Stratagems
Investigate spiders in Panama that use UV-reflecting silk in their webs to attract their prey. Build a device that traps flying insects, experimenting with different light sources to choose the best lure.
Library of Congress
Loc: Everyday Mysteries: Spiders and Their Webs
Have you ever wondered how spiders avoid getting stuck in their own webs? Check out this excellent explanation.
NC State University
The Engineering Place: Webs and Spiders
A instructional activity where students make a large spider web using yarn, and a spider out of pipe cleaners and yarn.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Charlotte's Web
As Charlotte uses her web to communicate, the students will also create a web to send a small message. The students will learn how a spider creates its web, and about the different types of webs spiders make. With this knowledge, the...
Other
Ed Nieuwenhuys' Spiders & Immunology: Spider Silk
An informative site on the properties of spider silk, including its surprising strength and how it's produced.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Reading Comprehension Assessment: "Spider Webs" [Pdf]
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in early elementary grades. Six multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on the assessment.
Other
Catch the Science Bug: Spider Search [Pdf]
Preserve a spider web then go on a search for the different kinds of spiders that live in your area. Do research to help you fill out the data collection sheet.
Read Works
Read Works: A Special Spider
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the wolf spider. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
SEDL
Sedl: Spiders
This is a wonderful resource for teachers who want to help children appreciate the place spiders have in the world and lessen their fear of spiders. Includes 7 sequenced lessons/units with detailed teacher notes, student activities,...
Read Works
Read Works: Web Weavers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how spiders and the ways they use their silk. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #7: Spiders
In this activity students will learn the body parts of a spider and write addition/subtractions sentences using spiders. The class will go on a nature walk to find spiders and spider webs. Finally, the students will complete a science...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Crafty Wasps Turn Spiders Into Web Weaving Slaves
Read about the effect a certain parasitic wasp can have on spiders. Includes video.
University of California
Ucmp: Araneae Spiders
A site from UC Berkely on the araneae class, the true spiders.
Other
The Classroom Electric: Spiders, the Web, and Dickinson & Whitman
Based on Emily Dickinson's poem "A Spider sewed at Night" and Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the authors of this site seek to "explore the nature of creativity, artistry, and audience." They bring together existing...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Why Spiders Don't Get Caught in the Web
In this lesson plan students listen to clues to determine that a mystery animal is a spider. After hearing the many clues, they will have learned many spider facts.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Parts of a Spider
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce pupils to the structure of a spider and to classify spiders according to observable attributes and habitats.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Thinking Fountain: Spider Glider
With a few readily available supplies, you can make a "spider glider." Visit this site for directions and more about spiders.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Very Busy Spiders
The students will work from a computer and a specified WebQuest to complete a unit on spiders. The lessons will incorporate literature, writing, science, art, and graphing.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students calculate the probability that a spider web will catch a fly. The webs are modeled as standard geometric figures (circle, rectangle, triangle), and assumptions are...
Other
Metrocosm: A Tangled Web of Alliances
Jefferson and Washington warned future Americans about entangling our country in too many alliances. Since WWII, we have largely ignored this advice. View our defense pacts, along with the rest of the world, on this map that resembles a...
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