Our spider inquiry continued to grow! We learned so much about spiders and even got to speak with experts. While we were learning about spiders, the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) had a spider exhibit. As we were unable to organize a last minute affordable trip down, we contacted the ROM to see what our options were. We ended up having a video call with their 'spider wrangler' and a scientist and it was AMAZING!
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| Our learning about how spiders catch their prey- we added to this chart as we learned |
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| A spider web created by J.C. |
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| A trapdoor spider created by P.X. |
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| A spider using a sticky globule to catch a bug by B.R. |
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| Students showed their learning in play all over the classroom! |
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| We created these Peacock Spider holiday gifts for the families. |
After reading many non-fiction books about spiders, our authors wrote and illustrated their own:
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| By: D.K. |
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| By: P.X. |
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| By: D.S. |
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| By: J.C. |
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| By: P.W. |
Before our call with the ROM, our learners wanted the experts to know all the information we knew. So they decided to use mind maps to share all their knowledge. They then wrote the questions they wanted to the spider experts to answer and we sent them ahead of time to the ROM.
And then we had our call!
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| This is a moulted exoskeleton of a Goliath Birdeater Spider |
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| Doing the Peacock Spider dance |
A big thanks to the ROM! We are now all spider experts! What a great way to end our inquiry.
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