Lead the discussion so as to refer to the graphs students constructed at the beginning of the unit. Take a survey at this time. Put the new data on a poster board showing the way students feel about spiders now that they have completed the unit. Use the information in the Organizing the Idea phase of the lesson. At the Science Center , the students pretend they are spiders catching flies and participate in Activity - Catch a Fly.
Students list the students in each set and count the members of each set.
They identify the set that has more, or fewer, members. The students say which number is greater and why. Students design and make a minibook, in cartoon style, showing a sequence of a spider building a web. Getting the Idea Students read the cinquains they wrote at the Writing Center . They discuss the ideas in the cinquains among themselves, comparing and contrasting their feelings about spiders.