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In September I asked for help concerning a tarantula project I wanted to do in my sixth grade classroom. Well, it is now underway and going quite well. A special thanks to JakeRocks who has helped me out tremendously.
50 of the 100 sixth grade students have their own sling. This will eventually include all 100 but I am starting with two of the groups. They are responsible to feed, water and take care of a sling for the duration of the school year. We will research different types of tarantulas and create a few different projects out of this activity.
In addition to the slings we have 15 other tarantulas we will be using. We have a 40 gallon cricket tank up and going and already there are 100's of little pin heads crawling up the corners. We have a meal worm tank and Giant Cave Roaches, unfortunately, these don't reproduce very quickly, we need to get some other types of roaches.
The web page will be up shortly, I will include that address as soon as the P.R. person gets it started. It will be off of www.isd.iu5.org. I am in the Iroquois School District, located in Erie, PA. The link will be up shortly.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would love to hear them. This is the first time I have attempted this sort of activity. I have always had a classroom full of critters but this time the kids will be completely involved.
Now, I am putting this up here so I can get some ideas and input. Naturally, this sort of activity is't one I can go around the school to see how other teachers have done it. In fact, some won't come into my classroom.
I also think it is interesting to mention, in my 10 years of teaching, I have never had a student deathly afraid of my tarantulas, scorpions or anything else we may have.
Thanks,
Scott
50 of the 100 sixth grade students have their own sling. This will eventually include all 100 but I am starting with two of the groups. They are responsible to feed, water and take care of a sling for the duration of the school year. We will research different types of tarantulas and create a few different projects out of this activity.
In addition to the slings we have 15 other tarantulas we will be using. We have a 40 gallon cricket tank up and going and already there are 100's of little pin heads crawling up the corners. We have a meal worm tank and Giant Cave Roaches, unfortunately, these don't reproduce very quickly, we need to get some other types of roaches.
The web page will be up shortly, I will include that address as soon as the P.R. person gets it started. It will be off of www.isd.iu5.org. I am in the Iroquois School District, located in Erie, PA. The link will be up shortly.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would love to hear them. This is the first time I have attempted this sort of activity. I have always had a classroom full of critters but this time the kids will be completely involved.
Now, I am putting this up here so I can get some ideas and input. Naturally, this sort of activity is't one I can go around the school to see how other teachers have done it. In fact, some won't come into my classroom.
I also think it is interesting to mention, in my 10 years of teaching, I have never had a student deathly afraid of my tarantulas, scorpions or anything else we may have.
Thanks,
Scott