Lesson 402: Champion Spinners

       
 

Questions

  

How do spiders spin webs?
Is web building a learned or instinctive behavior?
Why?

 

 

Game Plan

 

  

Watch a spider spin an orb web. See if you can follow the steps of web building.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Webs. . . Build an Orb Web

 

 
   

Weave a web by following the dots. Describe the steps.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Anansi’s Classroom. . . Lesson 402 Game Plan. . . Activity 402 A: Dot-to-Dot Spider Web

 

 
   

Weave a web with a flip-book. Describe the steps.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Anansi’s Classroom. . . Lesson 402 Game Plan. . . Activity 402 B: Flipping through a Web

 

 
   

Distinguish between learned and instinctive behaviors.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Glossary

 

 
   

Read about spiders.

  • The Spider and the Fly, a poem by Mary Howitt
  • How Spiders Make Their Webs, a book by Jill Bailey
  • Spiders Spin Webs, a book by Yvonne Winer
  • The Very Busy Spider, a book by Eric Carle

SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Yarns

 

 
   

Many people believe that the weather influences the behavior of people. What about spiders?

Read the weather rhyme and answer the question, "Do spiders change their behavior because of the weather?"
SpiderRoom.info . . . Spider Yarns . . .Weather Forecasting Rhymes

 

 
   

Be a spider mathematician.

  • Draw your own version of a spider web. Draw your web using line segments and angles. Use a ruler or straight-edge.
  • If you saw 14 spider webs during the summer, what is the number rounded to the nearest ten?

 

 

What I have learned

  

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