Summary Show how spiders hide in their environment, by placing spider images against images of their habitat. Science content Biology: Features, Adaptations of Living Things (K, 1, 3, 7) Science competencies (+ questioning + manipulation + others that are in every activity) Questioning/predicting: predicting (1 up), hypothesizing (7) Processing/analyzing: comparing observations with predictions (1 up) Evaluating: inferring (3 up) Materials wolf spider image cut out around the spider tree bark image, similarly-coloured to wolf spider house spider image, cut out around the spider wooden plank image, similarly-coloured to house spider crab spider image, cut out around the spider yellow dandelion image, similarly-coloured to crab spider Procedure This activity at Scienceworld, Vancouver. Some spiders are camouflaged to hide from predators. Hide each spider in its habitat: lay the spider over each habitat and find where it is best camouflaged. Grades taught Gr K Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 4 Gr 5 Gr 6 Gr 7
