Spiders

Spiders

http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Rayor/Spiders/Teaching/Teach
LinksWeb.shtml

One idea is to have children make a cube (about 6" - 8") or cover a cube-shaped box with white paper. Have the children write one fact about spiders on each face and illustrate it - or find a photo / clip/line art and paste it on the cube under the fact.

Have students create a diorama showing a scene from Charlotte's Web. Or a shadow box. Kids think they're cool!

maybe you could suggest a "what if?" involving the idea of the world wide web/Charlotte's web?
Excuse the pun, but they could do a webquest. The end product could be a class webpage detailing different facts they have learned about spiders like the various kinds out there or their habitats. If the teachers would like to do Charlotte's Web strictly, students could create artwork to go with what they've discovered in their research like facts about E.B. White or their responses to the book. That language arts product could still be culminated with a class web page.

Let's Talk About Spiders And Bugs!
Grade 2 - focus on differences between insects and spiders and how spiders are not really considered true insects.
Grade Level(s): K-2;

The Spider Myths Site: Myths, Misconceptions, and Superstitions About
Spiders http://www.washington.edu/

burkemuseum/spidermyth/
Topics include "General Fallacies," such as spiders are insects; "Myths about Identifying Spiders," such as they are easy toidentify; "House Spider Myths," including information about wolf spiders; "Just Plain Weird Stories," including urban legends about spiders in airplane toilet seats; and "Myths about 'Dangerous' Spiders." From the Curator of Arachnids at Burke Museum, Washington state.

Meet Some Spooky Spiders
http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/

features/spiders/
Find out about some of the many spiders inhabiting Australia.

Spiders Spin Out
http://www.abc.net.au/science/

scribblygum/february2004/
Fact files and photos of spiders.

Spiders
Preschool-K - Several activities for large and small groups, centers, and circle time.

Ss is for Spiders Theme
Grade K - This page contains books, songs, poems, language/ group activities, math activities, learning centers, art activities, snacks, and internet resources.

I Love Spiders - Inside Kindergarten
Grade K - Lots of fun learning activities for spiders

Spiders Unit
Grades K-1 - Seven lessons and resources to introduce young students to spiders; integrates math, science, and language

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Spider Gliders
Grades K-1, and up.. Directions for making a spider glider including helpful illustrations. Here is a class that made the gliders (includes photos).

SCIENCE

Under the Spell of Spiders
Grades 3-8 - Contains four lessons, reference information, and printable. Site provided by Smithsonian in Your Classroom, published by the Smithsonian Office of Education.

TECHNOLOGY

Spiders
Grade 1 - Five activities--Students use technology to list characteristics and describe diet and techniques of survival in the life of a spider

MATH

Sorting Through Spiders
Grades K-3 - Children need extensive opportunities to think about, question, discuss and manipulate data in order to learn how to ask and answer the whys in mathematics. In this activity, children will utilize their own drawings of spiders to analyze and sort the attributes that each child drew.

Spiders and Measurement
Grades 3-8 - Students will use an Internet site to find information about spiders. Students will write numbers in decimal form and word form. Students will convert measurements from millimeters to centimeters.

PRINTABLES

Spiders
Lots of helpful classroom printables & ideas from abcteach.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Spiders at Enchanted Learning
Printables, facts, and fun!

Spiders: Learning More About Spider Biology
Facts and resources from Cornell University

Missouri Spiders
Facts and photos from the MO Dept. of Conservation

Discovery Online Expeditions - SPIDERS!
Interactive site with lots of photos and facts.

BOOKS

A Guide for Using Charlotte's Web in the Classroom

Amazing Spiders (Eyewitness Juniors)
Alexandra Parsons

Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Gerald McDermott

Be Nice To Spiders
Margaret Graham