SCIENCE - ALL ABOUT SPIDERS

by BETTY MARSHALL

Objective: This lesson is design for a fourth grade class to enhance their knowledge about spiders.

Strategies: Will the students be using the computer Lab? No

Instructional Activities: What will the student's do?  The student's will go to the website and camouflage the crab spider.

Technology material :  Camouflage the spider and identify the spiders

Using Technology: How is the activity structured? Individual work: The students will work independently in whole groups and share ideas.

• Activity 1.The students will go to the website Camouflage the spider and follow the instruction given there.
  
• Activity 2. The students will go to the website identify the spiders and look under other spiders click and chose a spider to write a book report.
  
• Activity 3. The students will go to the website identify the spiders and look under poems to write a poem.
  
• Activity 4. The students will go to the website identify the spiders and look under spider anatomy to label the four main body parts of a spider.
  
  
• Activity 5. Spider Food Hunt Game: Go to the website identify the spiders look under spider food hunt game and begin to play the game and keep your score.                                    

Assessment: How will the activities be assessed? The students will be able to identify each spider that they read about in the lesson.  They will also be able to label the four main body parts of a spider.

© Betty Marshall