Curated OER
Web It
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.
Curated OER
Magic Vowel Spider Web
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.
Curated OER
Spider Web
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.
Curated OER
Make a Spider
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.
Curated OER
Human Inventions with Animal Features
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.
Curated OER
Measuring Spider Web Angles
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.
Curated OER
Building a Web
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.
Curated OER
Spiders
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.
Curated OER
The Laser Spider Web
Learners create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone
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...
Burke Museum
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture: The Spider Myths Site
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Charlotte's Web
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Does a Spider Need a Web to Catch Its Prey?
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...
Other
Ed Nieuwenhuys' Spiders & Immunology: Spider Silk
An informative site on the properties of spider silk, including its surprising strength and how it's produced.
NC State University
The Engineering Place: Webs and Spiders
A lesson plan where young scholars make a large spider web using yarn, and a spider out of pipe cleaners and yarn.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Why Spiders Don't Get Caught in the Web
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.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Parts of a Spider
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.
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.