Lesson 601: Amazing Silk

Questions

Why is spider silk called amazing?
Why do humans want to manufacture "artificial spider silk"?

Game Plan

Learn about silk and the organs that spiders use to spin it.
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List 3 adjectives that you would use to describe silk.
Write a few sentences or make a drawing showing why you selected these adjectives.

Investigate how much silk a spider can spin in one setting.
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magine that you are the first scientist to successfully make artificial silk. What would you make from the silk?
Why?

Read about spiders.

• Navajo legend of the Dream Catcher
  
• The Book of Spider, a book by Paul Hillyard
  
• First Look at Spiders, a book by Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt

SpiderRoom.info. . . Spider Yarns

Be a spider mathematician.

• If one spider can spin 10 yards of silk in 5 minutes, how much silk will the spider be able to spin in half an hour?

• Latifa wanted to make 3 dresses of spider silk. She will need 4 yards of silk to make each dress. How much spider silk will she need to make all three dresses?

What I have learned

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