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Spiders & Butterflies. By: Taylor Duley. Teacher’s Page. Objectives: Given the information about orb-web spiders, students will be able to define what an orb-web spider is, why they build a web, and how they build their web, with 100 % accuracy.
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Spiders & Butterflies By: Taylor Duley
Teacher’s Page • Objectives: Given the information about orb-web spiders, students will be able to define what an orb-web spider is, why they build a web, and how they build their web, with 100% accuracy. Given the information on the life cycle of the “American Lady” butterfly, students will be able to identify the characteristics and the four stages of the butterfly, with 100% accuracy. • Environment: Individually, at a computer, with headphones available, where talking is allowed. • Audience: Grades 1st-2nd, students who can and can’t read full sentences. Middle-class suburban community. • Students will be quizzed at the end.
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Main Menu: Click a box Learn about spiders Learn about butterflies Quick Spider Questions QuickButterfly Questions Quiz! Q
Let’s get started! Orb-web spiders Pay attention, there will be a quiz at the end!
Let’s get started! American lady butterflies Pay attention, there will be a quiz at the end!
Orb-Web Spiders • What are they? They are spiders that build their web in a circle.
Orb-Web Spiders • Why do they build a web? They build a web to trap bugs for food.
Orb-Web Spiders • What kind of bugs do they trap? They trap flies, moths, butterflies, and other insects.
Orb-Web Spiders • How do they build their web? With 6 steps. • One thick silk line. • “Y” shape with 3 silk lines . • Make outside silk lines. 1 2 3
Orb-Web Spiders • More steps… • Silk lines going from the middle to the outside. • Spins a dry spiral starting in the middle. • Goes the other way and spins a sticky spiral. 4 5 6
Quick Question #1 Orb-web spiders spin their web in the shape of a triangle. True or False?
Quick Question #2 It takes an orb-web spider 6 steps to build it’s web. True or False?
Try again! Go back to the web pictures if you are stuck.
Quick Question #3 Orb-web spiders catch people in their webs. True or False?
Orb-Web Spiders • FUN FACT! Spiders are NOT insects. They are animals because they have 8 legs.
American Lady Butterflies • What does the American Lady butterfly look like? A butterfly that has brown, yellow, and orange patterns on the top corners of the wings.
American Lady Butterflies • The American Lady butterfly mostly eatsflower nectar. • Nectar is sugary-liquid made from plants. • Just like the sugar we eat!
American Lady Butterflies • Their favorite floweris the Aster flower(like in the pictures).
American Lady Butterflies The four stagesof the butterfly life cycle: • The butterfly lays an egg. • A caterpillar hatches from the egg. 1 2
American Lady Butterflies • The caterpillar turns into a cocoon. • After some time, the adult butterfly hatches from the cocoon. 3 4
Quick Question #1 Nectar is a sugary-liquid butterflies eat. True or False?
Try again! Remember, it’s what humans like too!
Quick Question #2 There are 6 steps in the life cycle of a butterfly. True or False?
Try again! Hint: spiders have a 6 step way of doing something, not butterflies.
Correct! Butterflies have 4 stages in their life cycle.
American Lady Butterflies • FUN FACT! Butterflies do NOT have lungs like we do.
Question #1 What do spiders trap in their web? • Monkeys • Pencils • Flies
Question #2 What spider did you learn about? • The Daddy Long Leg • The Orb-Web • The Baby
Question #3 The first stage in the butterfly life cycle is.. • Eating • Running • Laying an egg
Question #4 What butterfly did you learn about? • Dragonfly • Beautiful • American Lady