Lesson 3
Title: Spiders! Spiders!
Spiders!
Grade level: 3-5
Subjects: Language Arts, Science
Learner Outcomes:
1. The learners
will learn about spiders, their habitats, and scientific names.
2. The learner
will compare ants and spiders.
3. The learner
will use the Internet to find information about spiders.
4. The learner
will write a short story about a spider telling some facts in the story.
5. The learner
will share stories with the class orally and/or in written form.
Duration of lesson: 2 - 50 minutes
Materials: materials from The
Mailbox magazine, Oct/Nov 1999, pages 4-10; Copycat
Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1999, pages 28-35.
Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer,
Internet, The Mailbox magazine,
Copycat Magazine
Teacher Notes:
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Safety and/or health factors - Caution
children about picking up spiders.
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Special requirements - make sure children have
an acceptable use policy.
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Parent, building or community resources - invite
a pest control person to come and talk to class about safety involved with
insects. Invite a person from WVU to share an insect collection.
Procedures:
1. Introduce children
to the web site that shows the Virtual
Insectary to look at and compare an ant and a spider.
2. Read some of
the poems and stories that are written in the web site. Choose one
of the stories/poems from site. Copy and allow children to share
story/poem with others in class.
3. Discuss what
a myth is and get rid of some myths about spiders by sharing some of the
facts that are listed in the Sept/Oct 1999 Copycat magazine.
4. Set up stations/centers.
Discuss what the children are to do in each of the stations.
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journal writing - Write a story using the story
starter: I always thought that spiders were disgusting Whenever
I saw one spinning a web, I'd run away as fast as I could. However,
... As a pre-write make a list of words that children might want
to spell but might be problem, draft a first copy, read it to a neighbor,
edit making corrections and additions, and then read it to the class.
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multimedia computer bookmarked with the spider
site mentioned above to draw and label a spider (work in groups of 2 or
3 at the computer)
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an art center to make a spooky spider following
the directions that are given in the Copycat magazine. Hang
the spiders from the ceiling for all to see.
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a publishing center to type the creative writing
stories from the journal center.
5. Send children to
the centers.
Modifications: Pair children with consideration
to their reading levels. A secretary might be needed to
help a child with writing problems to write
his/her thoughts.
Enrichment Activities:
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Stories can be used to make a class anthology.
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Collect little nursery rhymes and poems to add
to the "spider keeper" or make a folder to collect all of the interesting
pieces literature. Children can add illustrations.
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Set up a reading corner with a spider's web
and a collection of any spider books that are available.
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Teach the children the Tarantella, a dance from
medieval times. People believed that when bitten by a particular
spider they would dance wildly, the tarantella.
Evaluation/Assessment: Participation,
completion of listed projects
WV
State IGOs, Language Arts 3.2, 3.3,
3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.13, 3.18, 3.76, 3.21, 3.22, 3.25, 3.26, 4.3, 4.20,
4.25, 4.26, 4.29, 4.32, 4.34, 4.40, 4.51, 4.53, 4.70, 4.75, 4.80, 4.81,
4.83, 4.84, 4.92, 4.101, 5.16, 5.19, 5.20, 5.52, 5.56, 5.95 Science 3.11,
3.22, 3.32, 3.40, 4.9, 4.11, 4.18, 4.26, 4.29, 4.32, 4.35, 4.45, 5.8, 5.10,
5.27, 5.32, 5.33
National
Standards
References: The
Mailbox magazine,
Copycat
Magazine
Authors: Lula
Speelman, Jackie McCrum,
Cathy Robinson
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