Toad, Frog, Pollywog Song

This is a really catchy song about Amphibians!  You'll go froggy over it!

A Life Cycle App

This Life Cycles App is created by a team of high school students, educators, and parents in Texas. It is easy to use, intuitive and most importantly, provides educational content with great illustrations and narrations for students, schools and montessori's.

Appropriate for children ages 2-10+.

Following life cycles are covered in this app at this moment:
- "Frog Life Cycle"
- Water Life Cycle
- Butterfly Cycle
- Plant Cycle
- Pollination
- Photosynthesis
- Moon Phases
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Oxygen Cycle
- Rock Cycle

App Features:
+ Colourful illustrations with highlights at each stage (tap/swipe to go to next stage)
+ Detailed kid oriented descriptions for each stage
+ Narrations (by a elementary school teacher) per lifecycle stage

Frog Dissection

iPad Screenshots

Rain Forest Animals

Frog and Toad are Friends - Excerpt

Book Apps | Mr Frog the Neighbours Dog

Five Speckled Frogs

How to make a frog using clay, Playdough or plastercine.wmv

Difference Between Frogs and Toads

Did You Know??

- Toads ARE frogs?  Well, they belong to the frog family at least!

- Frogs have smooth, wet skin that looks slimy.

- Toads have drier skin that looks bumpy, kind of like warts! (But you can't catch warts from toads, that's a myth!)

- Frogs have skinnier bodies while toads look wider and fat!

- Frogs have long legs, while toads don't need them long because they walk, don't jump! 

- Frogs have webbed back legs to help with swimming.  Toads do not since they live on land!

Now it's your turn!  
Search the internet for 5 more differences between frogs and toads.  Send your findings to me either in an email or post it on your own blogs!   

KERMIT

A Frog Sitting on a Bench Like a Human

Red-Eyed Tree Frog Information and Writing Activity

Go to this Canadian Geographic link to learn about the Red-Eyed Tree Frog

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/red-eyed-tree-frogs/

Read the information and do one of the following writing activities:

 Writing Activity  Choices (choose one)
Cartoon: Frog Kisser OR Photo Fill-Ins Hair Salon Dog OR Just Joking: Frog Folly

Type the text in the text boxes to complete the cartoon you have chosen.

Additional Activity
Choose one other animal and explore similarities and differences with the red-eyed tree frog.  Complete a Venn Diagram to share with the class.

Frog Life Cycle Craft

Outcomes:

record relevant observations of changes in the appearance and activity of an organism as it goes through its life cycle, using written language, pictures, and/or charts (201-5)

observe and describe changes in the appearance and activity of an organism as it goes through its life cycle (101-7)

Materials:

• Print the templates provided below.
  
  OR make your own with:
• blue construction paper
• foil
• green construction paper
• brown construction paper
• bubble wrap
• black permanent marker
  

Instructions:

• Cut a large circle out of the blue construction paper OR use template #1
  
• OPTIONAL: Stick foil circles on the top to make it look like a pond
  
• Make your own frog and tadpole with green/brown construction paper OR use templates
  • Template #2 has no words on it.
  • Template #3 includes words.
    
• Make your frog eggs from bubble wrap by drawing small black circles in the center of each bubble with the permanent marker
  OR
  Use the picture on the template #2.
  
• Draw arrows between the stages to indicate the life cycle OR use the arrows on the templates.

• FROG SPECIES

  There are many different species of frogs.  They are found in almost every climate and all over the world except for Antarctica.  Here are some examples:
  
• Darwin's Frog
• Goliath Frog
• Northern Leopard Frog
• Ornate Horned Frog
• Poison Dart Frog
• Wood Frogs

Interesting Frog Facts

INTERESTING FACTS

• Did you know that a group of frogs is called an ‘army’?
  (A group of toads is called a ‘knot’.)
    
• Frogs don’t drink water they absorb it through their skin.
    
• Frog bones form a ring when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can use these rings to figure out the age of a frog. 
  
  
  
  
  
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Frog Life Cycle Labeling Game
http://www.cookie.com/kids/games/frog-life-cycle.html

Click on the link above and label the diagram to show your understanding of the phases of the frog life cycle.

Frog life cycle

Frog Riddles

Q: What happens if a frog parks in a bus stop?
A:  He gets toad away!

Q:  Why are frogs always happy?
A:  Because they eat whatever bugs them.

Q:  What happens when two frogs catch the same fly?
A:  They get tongue-tied!

Q:  What do you get when you cross a pig with a frog?
A:  A ham-phibian!

Fun Frog Craft

THE CRAFT:

Materials:

• a toilet paper roll,
• a printer,
• glue,
• scissors,
• something to colour with
• a piece of paper.

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice.
  
• Colour (where appropriate).
  
• Cut out the template pieces (adult assistance required... can be predone).
  • If you precut, you can put scotch tape on the back of the pieces and tape them to a piece of clean white paper while the children colour the pieces.
    
• Glue on the head, mouth, eyes, arms, and legs. Look at the picture above if you get stuck.

Interesting Frog Links

 http://www.abcand123learning.com/2011/05/life-cycle.html  This link show some really great flash cards on the life cycle of different animals.

http://www.exploringnature.org/db/detail.php?dbID=32&detID=2301   This link shows some really wonderful flip books on the life cycle of the frog.

http://www.abcand123learning.com/search/label/animals  This is a really good linking showing different crafts to make in the classroom or at home with your friends.

My Life Cycle Poem

Five Little Tadpoles (Poem)

Five little tadpoles swimming near the shore.
The first one said, “Let’s swim some more.”
The second one said, “Let’s rest awhile.”
The third one said, “Swimming makes me smile.”
The fourth one said, “My legs are growing long.”
The fifth one said, “I’m getting very strong.”
Five little tadpoles will soon be frogs.
They’ll jump from the water and sit on logs.

Stop motion animation featuring frog life cycle