Working in collaboration with the Educational Service Center, Region 20, Living Science Department, this session will offer a hand-on writing experience that gets up close and personal with tarantulas, snakes, crickets, and much more. Explore making connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society; creating mental images; and describing these personal connections through a written response. We will take a tour of the Living Science lab, learn about how members of the Living Science Collaborative can utilize this resource in their classrooms, and then start writing!