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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Web It

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study spider webs. For this lesson on spiders, students carefully examine spider webs and try to determine how a spider web works to trap the spider's prey without the spider sticking to his own web.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Magic Vowel Spider Web

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this long I words worksheet, learners read ten clues to words containing the long I sound. Students color the spaces containing the answers in a spider web.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spider Web

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners work together to get all of their team mates through the holes of an obstical course called the spider web while not touching the rope. In this team work lesson plan, students focus on working together.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make a Spider

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create spider crafts. In this spider craft lesson, students create three different spider based crafts. Students create a spider, a spider web, and a spider collage.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Human Inventions with Animal Features

For Students 7th - 10th
In this animal features worksheet, students match different animal features with the human invention that is similar. Students match 9 inventions and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring Spider Web Angles

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this mathematics worksheet, students identify that the spiders each used a different angle to create their webs. Then they find out each spider's angle by estimating and measuring.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building a Web

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this craft worksheet, students learn to make a spider web with white string and artist's matte finish to stiffen it. Students follow detailed directions to make the web and a black paper spider to go with it.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spiders

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners come to the conclusion, from various clues given, that the mysterious creature is a spider, and discover spiders come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Laser Spider Web

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Activity
Burke Museum

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture: The Spider Myths Site

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: Does a Spider Need a Web to Catch Its Prey?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Handout
Other

Ed Nieuwenhuys' Spiders & Immunology: Spider Silk

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative site on the properties of spider silk, including its surprising strength and how it's produced.
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Lesson Plan
NC State University

The Engineering Place: Webs and Spiders

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan where young scholars make a large spider web using yarn, and a spider out of pipe cleaners and yarn.
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Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Why Spiders Don't Get Caught in the Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Parts of a Spider

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce young scholars to the structure of a spider and to classify spiders according to observable attributes and habitats.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Spiders

For Teachers K - 1st
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.