October 2025

Do Spiders Wear Costumes?

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Skills Sheets

Reading Objective:

Students will identify ways that four spiders imitate something else to trick other animals into either becoming lunch, or not making them into lunch.

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-LS1-1: What animals need to survive

1-LS1-1: How animals meet their needs so they can survive and grow

Vocabulary:

nectar, mimicry