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Objective Grid
Lesson 1: Spiders! Scary or Nice?
Lesson 2: Spiders Have Special Characteristics
Lesson 3: Spiders Catch Prey
Lesson 4: The Spider's Life Cycle
Lesson 5: Spiders Have Natural Enemies
Lesson 6: Spiders Live Everywhere
-Where Do Spiders Live?
-Spider Number Stories
Lesson 7: Now We Know Spiders!
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Spiders - Lesson 6: Spiders Live Everywhere
ACTIVITY: Where Do Spiders Live?

Objectives
Students say that spiders can live anywhere and name at least three different types of habitats.

Materials
Books that describe and tell about the habitats of various spiders
Pictures of different spiders' habitats including the trap-door, water, grass, purse-web, tarantula, some shown below, and/or any others
Paper, pencil, crayons

Procedures

  1. Working in pairs or small groups, the students select at least three different spiders. They look in books to find out all they can about where spiders live and how spiders complete their life cycle.
  2. The students draw their spiders in their journals, labeling the type of spider and where it lives.

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