The webs of eight North American spiders are illustrated and discussed. Using these webs, the spiders are able to catch insects for their meals. Each of the webs are unique and require a different approach to the problem of food getting. (MA)

Tips for raising and caring for spiders are given. Feeding habits, web spinning, and ecological relationships are discussed as possible areas for study during the school year. Directions for catching the spiders and making a home for them are included along with suggestions for food sources. (MA)

Presents an outdoor activity to study pill bugs. Includes a lesson plan. (KHR)

Describes how beekeeping became a class project and the educational benefits of the project. Also describes how to prepare a group to maintain its own hive and suggests resource materials. (BR)

Describes care and feeding of Anoles (chameleons), including suggested classroom activities. (BB)

Presents a trade book that can be used in teaching the life cycle of butterflies. Includes sample activities and Internet resources. (KHR)

Presents classroom activities for teaching microbiology at the elementary and secondary levels. Activities demonstrate the existence of the microbial world, types of microbes, and their growth needs and effects in nature. (MLH)

Describes the care and maintenance of a freshwater aquarium in the classroom. Includes a chart indicating organisms, special uses, and care. (MA)

Describes the development and operation of an elementary school nature walk area. Includes instructional materials used with science activities in the area. (CP)

Reviewed are teacher and student materials for Searching for Structure, an activity-oriented, process approach, science program for upper elementary and middle school students. The program's science content relates to matter, energy, interdependence of living things and environment, genetic and environmental effects on living things, and the…

Describes a creative art activity in ecology involving the creation of an aquatic environment using construction paper, pipe cleaners, yarn, tissue paper, felt-tip pens, and glue. (MA)

Included are diagrams of 12 common plants with descriptions of their seed distribution mechanisms. (SL)

Describes a sixth grade unit of study on metamorphosis using the silkworm (Bombyx mori). Included are techniques for care and feeding of silkworms; ideas for observations and experiments. (CS)

Illustrates the concept of phototropism and the development of root systems using a classroom-constructed clinostat. Provides instructions to construct the clinostat and tips to promote plant growth. (MDH)