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Roald Dahl

The Twits - The Wormy Spaghetti

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
What do spiders' legs and an octopus's eyeball have to do with metaphors? The fourth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl uses disgusting foods to teach about metaphoric writing.
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the ways in which animals differ. They discuss the characteristics of insects and spiders. Students identify the characteristics of insects and spiders. They compare and contrast insects and spiders.
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Night Creatures of the Kalahari

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners conduct an experiment to demonstrate how fruit fly populations are controlled by spiders. They observe a variety of environments with fruit flies and spiders and consider how vital spiders are to controlling the insect population.
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Introduction To Bug Collecting

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore process of live collection of insects and spiders using sweep nets, aerial nets, and beating sheets. they collect, examine and release several different types of insects or spiders then compare their journal drawing of...
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Have You Ever Wondered?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use their personal knowledge and the Internet to discover where and how spiders live. In groups, they discuss their experiences with spiders and how their lives differ from other insects. They use new vocabulary to discuss their...
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Mini Worlds

For Students 5th - 8th
In this insects instructional activity, students 18 questions regarding butterflies, moths, bees and spiders. A print out version of this instructional activity is available, but the online version contains links to various webpages with...
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Ordering Numbers to 100 (D)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ordering numbers worksheet, learners solve 5 problems in which a set of 8 numbers under 100 are ordered from least to greatest. There are realistic spider pictures on the page.
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Planning Your Essay

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars discover how to organize essays effectively. In this writing lesson, students construct a spider map to develop their ideas for an essay.
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Anansi: A Language Arts Twist to the Trickster

For Teachers 1st
Students read African folk tales to learn about story elements and writing techniques. In this writing and reading skills lesson, students listen and retell African folk tales about Anansi the spider. Students complete four lessons to...
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Arthropods at Home- Spider, Isopod, or Any Arthropod

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students design a habitat for an arthropod. For this organisms lesson, students read the book, A House is a House For Me. Students find an arthropod and create a terrarium.
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The Spider and the Fly

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate maxima and minima by finding the shortest distance. For this calculus lesson, students calculate the shortest distance a bug travels to get to the other side of the tv. They analyze their findings discussing...
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Bugs Worksheet - What Bugs Do

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this bug themed worksheet, students will examine seven bugs and seven descriptions and then determine which bug matches each description.
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Divisor Spiders

For Students 3rd
Practice division with this short worksheet. It is not clear how to use this 32 question sheet, but a teacher could provide their own instructions.
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Let's Talk About Spiders And Bugs!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the differences between spiders and insects. They observe four different specimens in the classroom.
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Spider Match

For Students Pre-K - K
In this math activity, learners count spiders in a group and draw a line from each group of spiders to the matching numeral. Numbers are from 1 to 5.
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"Charlotte's Web" - Transfer of Learning Across the Curriculum: From Literature to Science

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research and write about the parts of a spider's body using educational software. They draw spiders using computer software.
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Picture Scramble: Spider Crab, Sea Nettle, Clearnose Skate

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science and visual discrimination worksheet, pupils examine images of a spider crab, seat nettle and clearnose skate. Next to each picture is the same image which has been divided into 9 pieces and scrambled. Students place the...
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Make a Spider

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this manual dexterity worksheet, students cut out a spider pattern. They fold the legs and attach them to the body, add a string, and scare a friend.
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2--Example 1

For Students 4th - 6th
For this spider diagram example worksheet, students look over and analyze a sample spider diagram expanding on the writing prompt of gardening.
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2--Example 2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brainstorming worksheet, learners create a spider diagram by placing themselves in the middle and making branches with all the things they enjoy doing or phrases describing themselves.
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2 Template

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brainstorming worksheet, students fill out a spider diagram by placing a key topic in the middle and expanding the bubbles with one or two words describing or explaining their key topics.
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Anatomy of the Texas Brown Tarantula

For Students 4th - 10th
In this Texas brown tarantula instructional activity, students examine the 7 labeled parts of the spider. The parts include spinnerets, abdomen, cephalothorax, leg, eyes, pedipalp, and chelicerae.
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Prehistoric Native American Lesson Plan: Make a Mississippian-style Gorget

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create a Mississippian-style gorget using clay and a stylus to etch a design of a stylized spider.
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Responding to Literature

For Students K - 2nd
Your class will create a four section flip book and write titles for characters, setting, problem, and solution. They will also draw a picture to show what they wrote about.

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