Lesson 501: Cycling with the Spiders

Questions

What are the stages in a spider’s life cycle?
Does a baby spider look like its parents?

Game Plan

Use the web to follow a spider’s life cycle.
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Make your own Spider Life Cycle Cards!
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 501 Game Plan . . . Activity 501 A: Spider Life Cycle Cards

Compare the life cycle of humans and spiders.

Ballooning is a method used by spiderlings (baby spiders) to move from the egg sac to an area where they can find food.

The spiderling puts out a silk line or dragline that is caught by the wind. Then the spider is picked up and carried to a new location.

Learn more about ballooning.
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Make your own egg sac.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 501 Game Plan . . . Activity 501 B: Eggs Galore

See for yourself how ballooning works by making your own ballooning spiderling.
SpiderRoom.info . . . Anansi’s Classroom . . . Lesson 501 Game Plan . . . Activity 501 C: Up, Up and Away

Read about spiders.

• Itsy, Bitsy Spider, a poem
  
• The Spider, a book by Margaret Lane
  
• Amazing Spiders, a book by Claudia Schnieper
  
• The Spider’s Dance, a book by Joanne Ryder
  
• Spiders, a book by Dean Morris
  
• Eight Legs, a book by Dorothy Souza

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Be a spider mathematician.

• Five Wolf Spiders live in a forest. Each wolf spider has 200 spiderlings. How many spiderlings are in the forest?

• Twenty-five spiderlings were ballooning away. Five ballooned to the north and seven ballooned to the east. How many were left?

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