Lesson 202: On the Offense

     
 

Questions

  

How do spiders actively defend against enemies?
If you were a spider predator, which defense would you most want to avoid?

     
 

Game Plan

 

  

Use the web to investigate spider weapons.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider survival . . . On the Offense

 
   

Imagine that you teach a self-defense course for spiders.
What defensive tips would you give spiders?

 

 
   

If someone were attacking you, how would you defend yourself?
Compare the ways that spiders and humans defend themselves.

 
   

Look through magazines (or on the web) for pictures of spider enemies and non-enemies. Cut them out.

Spider enemies include wasps, small parasites, birds (any animal that might eat insects or other arthropods) and even other spiders!

Glue the pictures on index cards or small sheets of paper. Sort the pictures into spider enemies and non-enemies.

Ask a friend, classmate, or family member to sort the cards. How do your sorts compare?

 
   

Read about spiders.

  • Spiders, a book by Alice Hopf
  • I Didn’t Know the Spiders Have Fangs, a book by Claire Llewellyn
  • Amazing Spiders: Eye Witness Junior Series, a book by Alezandra Parsons

SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Yarns

 

 
   

Be a spider mathematician.

  • Not into multiplication? Try Spider Division!
    SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 202 Game Plan . . . Activity 202 B: Spider Division

 

 

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