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Insects.org: Insects on the Web
Explore the fascinating stories of insects and the roles they play in our lives. Check out the photos and descriptions, learn how they help humans, find some great educational resources, and much more.
Read Works
Read Works: The Silk Mystery
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists' attempts to make spider silk. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Araneae, Spiders of North West Europe: Purse Web Spiders
A detailed description of the primitive purse-web spider. Includes pictures and information on how it catches its prey
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Araneae, Spiders of North West Europe: Sheet Web Spider
A site containing a myriad of pictures on the sheet web spider along with a commentary on aspects of the family.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Spiders
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce young students to the characteristics of a spider and to classify whether a spider is an insect or an arachnid by analyzing its characteristics.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Lion and the Spider [Pdf]
"The Lion and the Spider" is a one page fable about a lion who tried to get a spider to make a web for him big enough to catch his food. The spider said that was not possible, the lion tore down its web, and the spider bit him on the...
Kidport
Kid Port: Arachnids Spiders, Ticks, and Scorpions
KidPort.com provides simple information on arachnids, a type of arthropod that includes spiders, ticks, and scorpions.
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Spider's Apprentice: Helpful Guide to Web Search Engines
A site that gives tips on web searching, tells how search engines work, and gives analysis on the most popular search engines.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: A Tangled Web: Angles, From Basic Rules to Circle Theorems
For this game, you must solve tricky angle problems as you help Itzi the robotic spider find a way through a maze of tangled webs, to rescue his family and then get back to his home. Includes a helpful tutorial.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Spiders! Spin, Spin, Spin
Investigate the use of computers to simulate spider behaviors to learn more about how and why spiders build webs. Build a model of a web to compare your eyesight and dexterity to a spider's, then compare the elasticity and strength of...
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Tb: Spiders Considered as Medically Important
This article investigates how humans vary in their vulnerability to venomous spiders and the importance of certain spiders to medical research. It investigates what factors contribute to this difference.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Spiders! Spider Canyon
Investigate funnel-web spiders and their ability to adapt in order to survive. Make a set of spider trading cards that will include information about a spider's behavior, habitat and adaptations.
Defenders of Wildlife
Kids' Planet: The Web of Life
The Web of Life is a story told by a common garden spider at this site from Kids' Planet. Learn about the food web, and the roles and relationships of every living creature.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Walt Whitman
Not only for teachers. Explore the world of this famous writer when you visit the collection of links on Whitman at the Web English Teacher website.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.
Tree of Life Project
The Tree of Life Web Project: Animals
Extensive site that contains much information about the various animal phyla. Each phyla gives photos, common examples, scientific names and references. Collection of 1630 websites about bio-diversity.
Read Works
Read Works: Rachel Meets Harry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a spider named Rachel who gets blown from her web during a storm and meets a trapdoor spider. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Charlotte's Web Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] If your class is reading Charlotte's Web, you may want to download this flipchart filled with activities to do with your students. The flipchart contains a character match up game, an animal mix-up...
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The Tetragnathidae Family
A resource with information on a family of spiders similar to the orb-web spiders. Includes a section on the Tetragnatha genus, which have extremely large jaws. There are many photos.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Graphic Organizers
Explanations and diagrams of nine graphic organizers: spider map, series-of-events chain, continuum scale, compare/contrast matrix, problem/solution outline, network tree, human interaction outline, fishbone map, and cycle.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Spider
A close up photo of a spider as it weaves an intricate web which it hopes to catch small insects in. Learn about a wide range of spiders while checking out our fun spider facts for kids.
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Black Spider Monkey
Factual information is provided on the following topics: geographic range, habitat, physical description, reproduction, behavior, diet, economic importance, and conservation status.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Nobleman Is the Spider and the Peasant Is the Fly
An image of "The Nobleman is the Spider and the Peasant is the Fly", created by Jacques Lagniet after 1650 (Engraving).
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