Finding Out

For our first finding out activity, in groups we looked at pictures of spiders and insects, and talked about their body parts.

We noticed that Spiders have 8 legs, 2 body parts called the abdomen and head thorax. We learnt that the scientific name for a spider is Arachnid. A spider has an exoskeleton, which means his skeleton is on the outside of his body.

We noticed that insects have 6 legs, 3 body parts called the head, thorax and abdomen. They belong to the Insecta family.

We found out that snails and slugs belong to the Mollusc family.

To sort out what we found out, we have drawn diagrams of spiders and insects into our books, labelling the correct parts.