Each segment in the series engages the students with a jumbled letter puzzle of the subject organisms' names. Each also shows the class characteristics displayed by the organisms and explains the different parts of their life cycles. Bug facts, demonstrations, and directions for projects are presented by the hosts. This video segment combines spiders and scorpions because they both are arachnids and not insects, and the characteristics of arachnids are compared to those of insects. The wide diversity of spiders is demonstrated with footage of specimens of different sizes, shapes, and webs designs.
Viewers learn the way the spiders use their silk depends upon the predation techniques.
The video explains the way that scorpions use their stingers and how they communicate with pheromones. Scorpions live in warmer habitats than spiders and can live four or five months without food. The teacher's guide provides background information about the spiders and scorpions, directions to make a spider home in the classroom, and methods for collection . It also contains lists of vocabulary and additional resources. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.