Lesson 102: Take a Spider Walk

       
 

Questions

  

What spiders live in your home yard, school yard, or park?
What are spiders favorite habitats?

       
 

Game Plan

 

  

Take a "Spider Walk" (just like a nature walk, but with the emphasis on spiders) to observe different spiders and where they live.

 

 
   

Take a "Spider Journal" on the walk. Record your findings in words and drawings. Use a chart like the one below to record information about each spider that you find.

 

 

Spider

Where did you find it?
Was it a sunny or shady spot?

Did it have a
web?

Was there food in the web? What kind?

Were there
egg sacs in the web?

Was the spider moving or very still?

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Do all spiders live in cool, wet habitats?
What are some other places you can find them?
Name at least 3 different habitats in which we can find spiders?

 

 
   

Identify the spiders that you found. Use the book, Spiders and their Kin, by Herbert W. & Lorna Levi, or use the web site:
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Species. . . Virginia Spiders

 
   

Select a favorite spider that you found. Complete a story about the spider.

I am a (type of spider).
You will find me ( habitat).
I (do/do not) build a web.
My web (what the web looks like or what it is used for).

 
   

How can spiders make a shelter if they live in an environment that is too cold or wet?
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Species. . . Virginia Spiders. . . Nursery Web Spider

 

 
   

Find out about how a spider can live underwater.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Webs. . .Web Designs

 

 
   

Discover how spiders make and use traps.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Webs. . . Web Designs

 

 
   

Do you know how spiders make silk?
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Webs. . . All About Silk

 

 
   

Read about spiders.

  • Spider weather forecasting rhymes
  • Spiders in the Fruit Cellar, a book by Barbara Joose
  • Spiders Near and Far, a book by Jennifer Owings Dewey

SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Yarns

 

 
   

Be a spider mathematician.

  • A scientist on a "Spider Walk" saw nineteen spiders. Fourteen were seen in orb webs. How many spiders did the scientist see that were not in an orb web?
  • If a scientist began his spider walk at 3:05 p.m. and he walked for forty minutes, what time would it be when his spider walk ended?

 

 

What I have learned

  

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