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Spider Season


Core Learning Experience + Supplies and Equipment

  • ​Spider season in your area is a great time to go outside on a spider hunting expedition.  Take magnifiers, clipboards with paper and pencil and a digital camera.  Children can look at the (nonpoisonous and non-jumping) spiders up close, and then make a life drawing of one (doesn’t have to be accurate).
  • Go inside and discuss what you have seen.  Read a book, discuss body parts and web making, egg laying and food.
  • Spiders are not insects.  Describe the major differences large simple diagrams to illustrate your point

Possible/Expected Discoveries

  • ​Spiders are living animals.  They are not insects.  Spiders are arachnids, with 2 body parts (cephalothorax and abdomen), 8 eyes and 8 legs.
  • Many spiders spin webs to help them capture food (insects) to eat, to stay alive.  The web substance is extruded from the spider’s body, and is sticky.  I wonder why spiders don’t stick to their own webs?

Extended Learning and Other Curriculum Areas

  • ​​Be a spider and spin a web - wind a ball of over and under furniture around the room
  • Sensory box with natural items such as leaves, grass, rocks, small branches and some model spiders.
  • Draw a directed “scientific drawing” of a spider – even 3 yr olds can do this.  Teacher labels.
  • Make a spider hat – this is a black headband, with 4 legs stapled on each side, and 8 red circle eyes glued on the front.  Over 4s can use zigzag folding for the legs, and the younger ones can curl and fold them any way they want.
  • Categorize animals that are insects and animals that are spiders. 
Preschool science activities - spiders
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Activity Packs and Printables

Spider alphabet
Spider alphabet. $2.50
Preschool theme unit about spiders.
Preschool theme unit about spiders. $3.75
Spiders printables for preK and K. 68 pgs.
Spiders printables for preK and K. 68 pgs. $5.50
Spider emergent reader plus activities.
Spider emergent reader plus activities. $3.00
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Spider and flies quick counting center. $2.50
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Large spider numbers to 20. Free.
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Matching sipder sets to number webs to 10. Free.

Websites

www.halloweencostumes.com/spooky-spiders-spider-facts.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/Construction_of_a_web.html

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/spiders1 (photos)
​Spiders theme activities and printables

Books

I Love Spiders by Parker
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider by Ida Trapani

Spiders Lunch by Joanna Cole
Spiders by Gail Gibbons

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  • Home
  • Lesson Plans Index
    • Life Science Plants and Animals >
      • Comparing Leaves
      • Exploring Pumpkins
      • Shucking Corn
      • Earthworm Observation
      • Parent and Baby Animals
      • Collecting Ants
      • Spider Season
      • Visit to a Pet Store
      • Living and Non Living Things
      • Animals Come in Many Shapes, Sizes and Colors
      • Ways Animals Move
      • Animals Need to Eat
      • Difference Between Wild and Tame Animals
      • People Can Use Products Provided by Animals and Plants
      • Animal Coverings - Hair, Fur, Feathers, Scales and Skin
      • Animals Live in Different Places
      • Metamorphosis and Change in Biology
      • Nocturnal Animals
      • Egg Science
      • Exploring Fish
      • Tree Skin Bark
      • Roots Growing Potatoes in Water
      • Stems - Making Daisy and Clover Chains
      • Flowers
      • Digging in the Dirt
    • Life Science People Index >
      • Parts of Our Body and How We Use Them
      • Our Heart
      • Our Hands
      • Our Feet
      • Fun With Balance
      • Sound Search
      • Sense of Touch
      • Exploring the Sense of Sight
      • Follow That Scent
      • Stop That Germ!
      • Interesting Tools That Doctors Use
      • We Need Healthy Teeth
      • Keep Those Muscles Moving!
    • Physical Science Index >
      • Blowing Bubbles
      • Magnify!
      • Ways to Measure Time
      • Magnetic Attraction
      • Ramps in Motion
      • Ice Melting
      • Sink or Float a Boat
      • Sponges and water
      • Dropping Things Through the Air
      • Static Electricity
      • Battery Electricity
      • Properties of Soap and Water
      • Weights and Balances
      • How Can Heat Change Things?
      • Tools Can Help Us Do Things
      • Lifting with Levers
      • Earth and Sky Science Index >
        • Shadow Chasing
        • Sun Effects
        • The Night Sky
        • Kinds of Clouds
        • Dressing for the Season
        • Classifying Rocks
        • Colors of the Rainbow
        • Who Has Seen the Wind?
        • Rain
        • Snow
        • Litter Hunt
        • We Can Take Care of the Earth
      • Wheels
      • Predicting How Simple Machines Will Work
      • Computers and Other Devices
      • Discoveries With Straws
      • Different Ways of Making Light
  • Teaching Notes
  • Links
  • Contact