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Lesson 403: Be a Web Architect
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What kinds of webs do spiders
make?
How are these webs adapted to catch different kinds of prey?
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 Game
Plan
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Learn about the many kinds
of webs that spiders make and how they use them to catch prey. Select
the best type of web to capture prey in a specific environment.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Webs. . . Web
Designs
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Make a model of how a Trap-Door
Spider or a Purse Web Spider catches prey.
SpiderRoom.info. . .Anansi’s Classroom. . . Lesson 403 Game Plan..
. Activity 403 B: Trap-door Spiders in Action
SpiderRoom.info. . . Anansi’s Classroom. . . Lesson 403 Game Plan.
. . Activity 403 C: Purse-Web Spiders in Action
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Learn about the common spiders
of Virginia. Which ones make webs to catch flying insects?
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Species. . . Virginia
Spiders
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Go on a web safari. See how
many different kinds of webs you can find. Report your findings.
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Webs. . . Safari
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Read about spiders.
- Native American Creation Myth
- Extremely Weird Spiders, a book by Sarah Lowett
- How Spiders Make Their Webs, a book by Jill Bailey
- Spider Magic, a book by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
- Spiders, a book by Jan Dallinger
- Trapdoor Spiders, a book by Louise Martin
- The Spider Web, a book by Julie Brinckloe
- Spiders, a book by Kate Petty
SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Yarns
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Write a spider tongue twister.
Here’s an example to get you going.
Wise spiders
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Be a spider mathematician.
- Anansi the spider made a web with 10 dry lines. Anansi has 24 lines
all together in her web. How many of Anansi’s web lines are sticky?
- Pretend you went on a web safari and saw one thousand, five hundred
and forty-three webs. Write the number that means one thousand, five
hundred forty-three.
- Suppose that a Garden Spider catches 25 grasshoppers in a month. How
many grasshoppers would this spider catch in half a year?
- The picture to the left shows a spinner for a Spider Web Game. If
you spin the arrow on the spinner, on which type of web is the arrow
most likely to land?
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What I have learned |
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Write below what you have learned,
then press the button.
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