Becoming a spider scientist: an integrated unit inspired by Charlotte's Web builds vocabulary and reading skills while teaching third graders about spiders.

Science and Children | November 1, 2008| | Copyright

At last Wilbur saw the creature that had spoken to him in such a kindly way. Stretched across the upper part of the doorway was a big spiderweb, and hanging from the top of the web, head down, was a large grey spider. She was about the size of a gumdrop. She had eight legs, and she was waving one of them at Wilbur in friendly greeting" (White 1980, p. 37).

While holding the newest member of our classroom, a tarantula, I asked my third-grade students to share what they knew about spiders. After all the "eewwss" and "ahhhs" subsided, I quickly realized that many of ...

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