Spiders in the Classroom?

Spiders not only play an important and pivotal role in the environment, but in the classroom as well. They afford the youngest students an exciting and interesting subject for learning the basics of scientific identification and the older students a more complex model for detailed observation and investigation.
ArachnoScience utilizes Washington State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) as a guide in developing our programs. The Science Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) offer us an even clearer focus ensuring that our program content compliments the individual curriculums within the classrooms that we visit.

The goal of ArachnoScience is to create an interest and appreciation for spiders and insects and the vital role that they play in our environment. The program is designed to give children a solid, scientific foundation in which they may continue to build upon.

While fear seems to be a common emotion when dealing with spiders, it is through fear that interest arises, and this interest invariably opens the doors of learning and a better understanding of the natural world.