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Overview

• Collecting & Caring for Spiders
• Spider Tools

• Getting Started
• Student Activity 1
• Student Activity 2
• Student Activity 3 & 4
  
• Timelines
• Vocabulary
• Materials
• References

Student Activities

• Objectives
  
  
• Observing
• Experiment
• Spider as Prey

Spiders: An Organism for Teaching Biology

Equipment and Supplies

1. Containers for spiders. Supplied by students.
   
   
2. Drosophilia fruit fly cultures. Check with Biological Supply Companies or the University of Arizona.
   
   
3. House fly cultures. See Rearing House-flies (Barrass) in references for starting and maintaining cultures.
   
   
4. Slides and video tapes of spider studies made by Deborah Schiedemantel.
   
   
5. Pooters. Homemade from plastic tubing and old nylons.
   
   
6. Study Site located on or off campus.
   
   
7. Field measuring tape, metric.
   
   
8. Acrylic paint, fine tip brushes or other applicator.
   
   
9. Dissecting microscopes, hand lenses.
   
   
10. Spider identification keys.