Lesson 301: Catching Dinner

Questions

How do spiders fit into a food chain?

What is their prey? Predators?

Game Plan

Investigate the 13 common Virginia spiders. Select 5 spiders that you would like to learn about. What is each spider’s prey? Predator?
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Species . . . Virginia Spiders

Summarize your findings. Complete the information for the five spiders you selected.

Create your own venom model and discover how spider venom really works.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 301 Game Plan . . . Activity 301 A: Spider Venom

Make a spider food chain.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 301 Game Plan . . . Activity 301 B: Spider Chains

Classify what spiders like and dislike for dinner.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 301 Game Plan . . . Activity 301 C: On the Menu

Read about spiders.

• Check out some unbelievable spider doctor prescriptions!
  
• Spiders, a poem by Diane Ackerman
  
• There Was An Old Lady, a folk song
  
• Be Nice to Spiders, a book by Margaret Bloy Graham
  
• Spider Watching, a book by David Webster
  
• The Lady and the Spider, a book by Faith McNulty
  
• Black Widows, a book by Peter Murray
  
• Outside and Inside Spiders, a book by Sandra Markle

SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Yarns

Be a spider mathematician.

• A Crab Spider ate 4 crickets. A Tarantula ate 2 crickets. A Jumping Spider ate 1 cricket. How many total crickets did these spiders eat?

• A Jumping Spider is 1/4 of an inch long. It jumped 40 times its length! How many inches did this spider jump?

What I have learned

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