Spidey Friends

Ages K-5th Grade

This engaging class introduces students to the fascinating world of spiders by exploring their features, eating habits, and senses. Students will read stories and play interactive games while discovering what makes these eight-legged friends so amazing.

Curriculum Standards Supported:

Colorado Academic Science Standards

SC09-GR.PREK-S.2-GLE.1 Living things have characteristics and basic needs
SC09-GR.PREK-S.2-GLE.2 Living things develop in predictable patterns
SC09-GR.K-S.2-GLE.1 Organisms can be described and sorted by their physical characteristics. 
SC20-GR.K-S.2-GLE.1 To live and grow, animals obtain food they need from plants or other animals, and plants need water and light.
SC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.2 All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions.
SC09-GR.1-S.2-GLE.2 An organism is a living thing that has physical characteristics to help it survive. 
SC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.2 A range of different organisms live in different places.
SC09-GR.2-S.2-GLE.2 Each plant or animal has different structures or behaviors that serve different functions.
SC09-GR.3-S.2-GLE.1 The duration and timing of life cycle events such as reproduction and longevity vary across organisms and species.
SC20-GR.4-S.2-GLE.1 Organisms have both internal and external structures that serve various functions.

Next Generation Science Standards

K-LS1-1 Use observations to describe patterns of what plants or animals need to survive. 
K-ESS3-1 Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals and the places they live
1-LS1-1 Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow and meet their needs
2-LS4-1 Make observations of plants or animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles, but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. 
4-LS1-2 Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem