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Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Analyze
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "analysis" mold, including fishbone, spider maps, Venn Diagrams, and more.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrical Engineering: Home Made Robots
Use these tutorials to start some robotics projects with Spout, Spider, and Bit-zee bots.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Jenny Nimmo
Read this biography to learn about award-winning author Jenny Nimmo, author of The Snow Spider, Griffin's Castle, the Children of the Red King series, the Charlie Bone series, and more. Links to her website and a list of her books are...
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Repeated Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle to teach young scholars predict the outcome of a story with textual repetition. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Cindy Mark: What's Bug'n You
Students will enjoy learning more about bugs in this engaging resource. Allows users to draw a picture of a spider, create an insect information book, discover how insects move and be able to tell where insects live.
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Spider Sounds
Explore the communication rituals of insects and other arachnids by constructing a device capable of detecting minuscule impacts of cricket feet.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Spider Fly Distance
A "three star geometry problem" requiring knowledge of how to complete geometric proofs and some prior math skills to figure the shortest distance between the opposite corners of a cuboid.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Hey! A Tarantula Bit Me!
A tarantula is a black, hairy spider that is about two to three inches long. Learn all about spiders and tarantulas in this article for kids.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Other Invertebrates
Learn about various species of invertebrates including ticks, mussels, spiders and worms.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Creepy Critter Feature
Discover all you can about various "creepy" critters, including bats, snakes, spiders, cicadas, leeches, ticks, moths, pupas, lampreys and fleas.
University of California
Understanding Evolution: Introducing the Arthropods
This extensive look at the arthropod provides enough information for any budding naturalist, but will also be interesting to one casually interested in insects, spiders, and crustaceans. The pictures are outstanding, and the writing is...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Animal Quizzes
Links to science quizzes about animals and birds. Topics include animal classification, butterfly, beetle and frog life cycles, spiders, bats, birds of prey, owls, birds of the jungle, rainforest, cold climates and migration.
Curated OER
Callilepis Nocturna
A web site on the spider family Gnaphosidae, otherwise known as the sac spiders. Tidbits of information coupled with plenty of pictures.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Arachnology Collection
Australian Museum Online has a collection of arachnids. You can even examine their "feature arachnid!"
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Terrific Tarantulas
A detailed site about tarantulas, including topics suchs as molting, structure, urticating hairs, and how to handle them.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Ay! Me Pico Una Arana Viuda Negra!
Find out what a black widow spider is, what a bite looks and feels like and what you should do. In Spanish.
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The Daddy Long Leg
A page devoted to the life of the daddy long-leg. Explains things such as its life-span, mating habits, preying method, etc.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Irvin L. Trujillo
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Irvin L. Trujillo is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with weaving (including his famous "The Hook and the Spider").
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Standing on Your Own [Pdf]
This FYI for Kids (Volume 4, Issue 3) article discusses how babies both human and some animals move around. It includes humans, kangaroos, anteaters. wolf spiders, cows, and cichlids.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Times Tables
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes spider tables and explains how to use them with students who are learning their times tables.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Animals for Kids: Invertebrates
What is an Invertebrate? Kids learn about these animals that have no backbone such as worms, mollusks, insects, and spiders.
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