Activity 4: Grades 5-8
Spider Sounds

Jumping spider mating behavior

Adaptations for prey capture

Patterns in the movements of crickets

Sound waves

Amplification

Students will conduct an investigation, gather data, and identify any patterns.

Students will think critically about the data and formulate cause - effect relationships.

Students will use technology to enhance the accuracy of data collection and analysis.

Students will investigate sound energy and how it is transferred.

Students will explore the structure and function of an organism.

Students will learn that organisms respond to external and internal stimulus.

Students will uncover one organism's adaptation for methods of obtaining food.