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What a tangled web a spider can weave. Masters at the art of building fine thready traps for food, spiders come equipped with body parts that make the job easy. Discover how spiders produce thin silk threads, how different spiders build different webs, and how strong that thread can be! Follow steps to understand how to construct a web from start to finish, then follow simple visual illustrations to practice drawing a scary spider of your own design. Next time you’re in a garden, look more closely at the spider’s work of art to see if you can untangle how it’s made!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about spider web-making skills
- order illustrations in correct sequence
- discover instincts and features that aid spiders in survival
- learn names of common spiders
- understand the strength of spider silk
- follow visual steps to draw a spider of your own
- create a newspaper ad to lure a spider
- create a word web
- write about a time you assisted another
7 page PDF
