Frog Life Cycle
TEKS Objective
The student is expected to observe and record life cycles of animals such as a chicken, frog, or fish.
Essential Understanding
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments.
Science Background
Keep Texas Wild Amazing Amphibians: Texas Parks and Wildlife (website) - Amphibians are a group of animals that includes salamanders, frogs and toads. Amphibians begin their life as eggs laid in water then transform into land animals.
Keep Texas Wild Amazing Amphibians
Texas Parks and Wildlife, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
Signature Lesson
Swimmy Science - Raising Tadpoles: Education.com (website) - Students learn to think like a scientist as they observe animals, compare and contrast their characteristics, record developmental changes, and discuss their development.
Swimmy Science - Raising Tadpoles
Education.com, http://www.education.com/
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Raise Toads and Watch How They Change: Nature Discovery Center (PDF) - Observe and record the life cycle of a frog in this investigation.
Raise Toads and Watch How They Change
Nature Discovery Center, http://www.naturediscoverycenter.org/
Toadally Frogs - Chapter 3 Life Cycle: Moody Gardens (PDF) - Activities on pages 15–18 provide opportunities for students to learn about and record the development of frogs and toads from egg to adult.
Toadally Frogs - Chapter 3 Life Cycle
Moody Gardens, http://www.moodygardens.com/
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Life Cycle of a Frog: Worksheet Place (PDF) - Create a student book that describes the life cycle of a frog using this premade worksheet.
Life Cycle of a Frog
Worksheet Place, http://worksheetplace.com/
An Integrated Lesson Comparing the Butterfly and Frog Life Cycle: University of North Carolina, Learn NC (website) - Compare and contrast the life cycle of butterflies and frogs.
Assessment Ideas
Life Cycle of Frogs: Kids Zone (website) - Use this sequencing page to assess your students understanding of the life cycle of a frog.
Literature Connections
Life Cycles - The Frog. Noonan, Diana. (ISBN-13: 978-0791069660)
Frogs. Gibbons, Gail. (ISBN-13: 978-1430109471)
Why Frogs are Wet. Hawes, Judy (ISBN-13: 978-0064451956)
Additional Resources
Life at the Pond Frog Life Cycle: Primary Resources (Website) - Click on “Frog Life Cycle” to access a power point that has excellent photographs.
Life at the Pond Frog Life Cycle
Primary Resources, http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/
Something Froggy: The Franklin Institute (website) - Frederick’s circle of life began in the calm and warm surroundings of Lily Pad Pond, sequence the pictures of his life cycle in this interactive game.
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