National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Terrific Tarantulas
A detailed site about tarantulas, including topics suchs as molting, structure, urticating hairs, and how to handle them.
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: Spiders
Basic facts about spiders, with links to related topics, photos and videos.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Arachnology Collection
Australian Museum Online has a collection of arachnids. You can even examine their "feature arachnid!"
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Common Spiders
Find concise information that chronicles common spiders found around homes and buildings. Several descriptions and pictures are included on this site.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Brown Recluse Spider
Webpage reference on the brown recluse spider which is more poisonous than a black widow and is more often found infesting homes and businesses.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Pseudoscorpions O Logy Card
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information about pseudoscorpions.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: White Tailed Spider O Logy Card
Turn over this interactive card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about the white-tailed spider, such as their diet and physical characteristics.
Read Works
Read Works: Calling All Spiders!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of spiders found in North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Arachnids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Arachnids are a class of joint-legged invertebrates in the subphylum Chelicerata. They live mainly on land but are also found in freshwater and in all marine...
Read Works
Read Works: Watch Out for Ticks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ticks. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: A Special Spider
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the wolf spider. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Hey! A Tick Bit Me!
A tick attaches itself to the skin of a person or animal and sucks blood. Learn more about ticks in this article for kids.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: A Detailed Description of the Anatomy of Spiders
Describes anatomical features of a spider, including its external structure, eyes, mouth parts, digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system, nervous system, reproductive system, and its spinnerets.
US Department of Agriculture
Us Dept. Of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service: Recipe for Tick Soup
This resource by Agricultural Research Service researches how Deer ticks present a major health threat. Find out how scientists are using roundworms (nematodes) to combat the deer tick population.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 9.13 Arachnids
Understand the behaviors, characteristics, and classification of arachnids.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Tarantula
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about tarantulas with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Spider
Colorful resource for learning useful facts about spiders with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
Other
San Francisco Zoo: Black Widow Spider
Detailed information and fascinating facts about the black widow spider include diet, habitat, physical features, behavior, and conservation status.
PBS
Pbs Nature: Spider
There are about 35,000 known species of spiders in the world and this research resource site surveys these animals in text and images.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
Other
Walking Well: Arthropod Stings
This site has interesting information about stings from different arthropods like bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, ants, caterpillars, spiders, ticks, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions.
Other
Sac Spiders
A resource with information on the spider family Gnaphosidae, otherwise known as the sac spiders. Includes pictures.
Other
The Tetragnathidae Family
A resource with information on a family of spiders similar to the orb-web spiders. Includes a section on the Tetragnatha genus, which have extremely large jaws. There are many photos.
Other
The Water Spider
A resource with information on the water spider. Contains pictures and information on the way the spider stays alive and how it feeds.