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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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1) Find out what students know about spiders.
2) Getting comfortable: show spiders & containers.
3) Assign: Live spiders due next Tuesday (or before).
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1) Make pooters & spider rakes (see Special
Spider Tools).
2) Practice pooting flies (30 min.).
3) Go over collecting techniques, problems finding/collecting
etc.
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1) Slide show and video on spider research and
behavior
(teacher produced)
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1) Hand-out Prey-Eaten data sheet
2) Discuss or provide and activity on observations,
forming hypotheses, and designing experiments.
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1) Spiders due.
2) Observation #1
3) Identify spiders.
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1) Observation #2
2) Continue to ID spiders if necessary.
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1) Discuss Mark & Recapture studies
2) Review procedures and group/individual duties.
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1) Mark Spiders (Day 1-Class Exp.- Do Spiders Limit
the Numbers of Their Prey?)
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1) Review questions collected from spider observations.
2) Begin Student Experiments by having the students
write a hypothesis and procedure (see Spider Study - Student Experiment)
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1) Recapture Spiders (Day 2-Class Experiment-
Do Spiders Limit the Numbers of their Prey?)
2) Begin discussing results.
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1) Prey Eaten data due.
2) Work on Mark & Recapture lab write -up
and discussions
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1) Give students back procedures
2) Discuss experimental design.
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1) 30 minutes to work on experiment (see Spider
Study - Student Experiment.)
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1) 30 minutes to work on experiment
(see Spider Study - Student Experiment).
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1) 30 minutes to work on experiment
(see Spider Study - Student Experiment).
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1) 30 minutes to work on experiment
(see Spider Study - Student Experiment).
2) Discuss how to write up results of students'
experiment
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1) Discuss.
2) Write up results.
3) Assign reading.
4) Start introducing and using terms.
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Video: Amazing World of Spiders
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1) Kaibab Deer Activity
(Lessons of the Kaibab) -discuss natural relationship
(balance) between the # of predator-prey
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1) Students make posters and prepare presentations.
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1) Wrap-up
2) Review
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Test
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the unit.
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