Iowa Public Television

Do you have students who love spiders? In this session, a naturalist from the Polk County Conservation Board discusses different types of spiders, such as web weavers and hunters. Students make a spider web and learn how spiders catch their food. This interactive program also allows time for students to ask questions, so come prepared.

Registrants agree to bring the following contents to the ICN session:

• a ball of yarn or string for building the spider web.

Following the ICN session, registrants receive the complimentary books Diary of a Spider and Spiders or alternate titles.

Other Polk County Conservation Board ICN events include:

Session Related Web sites:

• Polk County Conservation Board (www.leadingyououtdoors.org) - Find information about nature in Iowa, an Ask a Naturalist activity, educator resources and much more.

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Applicable standards from MCREL:

Science Standards (Life Sciences)

Standard 5: Understands the structure and function of cells and organisms - Level 2 [Grades 3-5]
1. Knows that plants and animals progress through life cycles of birth, growth and development, reproduction, and death; the details of these life cycles are different for different organisms

Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment Level 1 [Grades K-2]
2. Knows that living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that distinct environments support the life of different types of plants and animals

Standard 7: Understands biological evolution and the diversity of life
Level 2 [Grades 3-5]
2. Knows different ways in which living things can be grouped (e.g., plants/animals, bones/no bones, insects/spiders, live on land/live in water) and purposes of different groupings
Level 3 [Grades 6-8]
5. Knows ways in which living things can be classified (e.g., taxonomic groups of plants, animals, and fungi; groups based on the details of organisms' internal and external features; groups based on functions served within an ecosystem such as producers, consumers, and decomposers)

Classroom Resources:

The following related programs are available on IPTV's broadcast or from the AEAs: (Check the K-12 Classroom Television (www.iptv.org/k12catalog) Web site for broadcast dates and times.)

• BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY (Grade Level: 4-12)
• ZOBOOMAFOO: Climbing, program #10 (Grade Level: PreK-2)
• DRAGONFLY TV (Grade Level: 2-5)

Only twelve 'interactive' sites are scheduled for each session. Videotaping is NOT available.

Sessions are provided at no cost by Iowa Public Television in collaboration with the Iowa Communications Network to PK-12 students and the adults working with or on behalf of PK-12 students in Iowa.

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