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Teaching
Guide
[Spiders: Allies or Enemies?] with link to it
produced by
[Earline K. Wright]
Web Institute for Teachers, Summer, 2004
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Introduction
Aim
Rationale
Goals
and Objectives
Audience
Prerequisites
Subject-Matter
Instructional Plan
Materials
Assessment and Evaluation
Appendices
Resources
Glossary
Introduction
This lesson was developed as part of the 2004 WIT class for
teachers on using the web in the classroom. This WebQuest will provide
additional study of spiders after they have been taught in the
classroom.
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Aim
This WebQuest is designed for fourth
graders for
further study of spiders to enhance the regular curriculum study.
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Rationale
Many people have a deadly fear of spiders; they are frightened
because they think that all spiders are harmful to them. Through
this study the students will determine if spiders are helpful or harmful
to the environment and then produce a model of a selected spider in its
natural habitat.
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Goals and Objectives
The goals of the lesson is to provide an opportunity for
students to explore different species of spiders to determine their
properties and effects on nature.
The Illinois Curriculum
Standards that this WebQuest Supports are:
Science Goal 12:
A.
Know and apply concepts that explain how living things function,
adapt and
change.
12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things
(e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones,
blood, hair,
skin) and their
major functions.
12.B.2a Describe relationships among various organisms in their
environments (e.g., predator/prey, parasite/host, food
chains and food webs).
Language
Arts Goal 3: Write
to communicate for a variety of purposes.
3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes
and for specified audiences in a variety of forms including narrative (e.g.,
fiction,
autobiography), expository (e.g., reports,
essays) and persuasive writings (e.g.,
editorials, advertisements).
3.A.2 Write paragraphs that include a variety of sentence types;
appropriate use of the eight parts of speech; and accurate
spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
Goal 5: Use the language
arts to acquire, assess and communicate information.
5.A.2b Organize and
integrate information from a variety of sources (e.g., books, interviews,
library reference materials, web-
sites, CD/ROMs).
Social Studies
Goal 18: Understand social systems, with an emphasis on the United
States.
18.B.2a
Describe interactions of individuals, groups and institutions in situations
drawn from the local community (e.g., local
response to state and national
reforms).
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Audience
This lesson is designed for fourth grade students, but can be
adapted for other grade levels.
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Prerequisites
An introduction and initial study of spiders has to take place
in class
before this lesson can be useful for students.
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Subject-Matter
This lesson is a related to the science subject matter
concerning discovery of animal behavior.
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Instructional Plan
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Materials
Materials will consist of internet sites and other educational
materials such as books, paper, pencils,
printers, PowerPoint software, art materials,
and video or audio materials. .
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Assessment and
Evaluation
1. You will be graded according to how well you work with your
team in gathering information both in books and on the computer.
2. You will be graded according to how well your team works
together in the final presentation.
3. You will also be graded according to your final product.
4. As you can see you will be graded both on your own work and
how well you work with your team members.
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Appendices (optional, if needed)
Resources
Glossary
Developed
by Janet Gray-McKennis based on previous versions created by Craig Cunningham,
Mecca Murphy, Nenette Luarca, Nicole Zumpano, and Linda Dernbach.
Last updated on May 10, 2003. |
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