Learning about spiders can be fun! This unit includes informational articles, hands-on activities, and vocabulary posters for those creepy, crawly creatures. This unit focuses on Arachnids, Life Cycle of a Spider, Black Widow Spiders, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas.
What’s inside:
✔ Informational Articles About Awesome Arachnids, Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, Tarantulas and Life Cycle of a Spider
✔ Black Widows Close Up
✔ Spotlight on Wolf Spiders
✔ Tarantulas Uncovered
✔ Compare & Contrast All Three Spiders–Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words
✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
✔ Spiders Flip Booklet (5-pages)
✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
✔ Spider Vocabulary Posters
There are lots of hands-on activities and organizers for students to show what they know. This pack can be set up as five fun activities for centers for a weeklong investigation.
This pack includes six vocabulary posters with real-life photographs for students to connect to the information. There are several vocabulary activities included too. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board in a snap!
There are three main activities in this pack:
Vocabulary:
Introduce the six vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to define the words in their flip-flaps that fit nicely inside their science notebooks. There is a Spotlight on Vocabulary. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board display too!
Reading:
Next, have students read the informational articles all about spiders, the life cycle of a spider and more. Read the case studies where they will learn about Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas. There are organizers for each type of spider to reinforce learning.
Activities:
✔ Comparing All Three Spiders (Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words)
✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
✔ PLUS a 5-page Spiders Flip Booklet