Curated OER
Spying on Spiders
Young scholars investigate spiders. In this spiders lesson, students create a habitat for a spider with a jar, twigs, and dirt. Young scholars observe the behavior of the spider and record how they spend their days.
Curated OER
Spiders Have Too Many Legs, Study Finds
Students 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. Students...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Did You Say Spiders?
Contains plans for six thirty-minute lessons that ask young scholars to make response journals and multimedia projects about spiders. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and...
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.