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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Ethics and Spider Webs

Our chapter read-aloud right now is Charlotte's Web. We have gotten to the part where Wilbur is a little horrified to find out that Charlotte captures and eats her prey. She goes into a whole explanation of why and how spiders are born knowing how to weave webs to catch their dinner.

I asked my students to think about the concept from Kaplan's Depth and Complexity-Ethics and is it right that spiders catch insects in their webs? And why do you feel that way? Most students actually did say it was right, because they had to survive. Circle of life-right?


























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