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Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Frogs at Risk

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about frogs and toads in Ecuador that are at risk of dying out. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Interactive
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Connect the Dots With Science

For Students 3rd - 5th
Connect-the-dots science pages providing useful and helpful information regarding pollinators, endangered species, and invasive species. [PDF] Links to other handy tools, including coloring pages, trivia, stories, games and fun projects.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Nature: Wildlife: Common Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn all about the life of a frog. Read this detailed fact sheet and examine these photos for further information.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Pond Life Animal Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Filled with printable pages of both plant and animal pond life, Enchanted Learning features fact sheets with color pictures.
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Article
Other

Mdc: Missouri's Toads and Frogs [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
The state of Missouri provides this descriptive listing of the many species of frogs and toads found in the state. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Nature: Frogs and Toads

For Students 2nd - 8th
Do you know how to tell the difference between a frog and a toad? This site provides interesting facts and information about this type of amphibian from where they live to what they eat and more.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Frog Myths Across Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
From myths abound with the frog being known as a trickster, magician, master of escapes, spells, symbol of fertility and renewal. Learn about the interesting frog myths that exist in this enjoyable site.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Northern Leopard Frog

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here, the Northern Leopard Frog, a popular frog throughout North America, is described in succinct detail.
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Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Ponds

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The abcteach directory contains sample pages from their pond unit for non-members. Handouts are in PDF format.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Frog or Toad? [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Patricia Lynch's early childhood book, Frog or Toad?, is provided on this script. Three character roles, along with a chorus of all other students, are needed in this performance.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Frog Poem Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation outlines the life of a frog in a storybook format through a poem. The poem covers the stages in the life of a frog.
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Website
Other

Welcome to Frogland!

For Students 9th - 10th
Frogland has fun and important information about frogs in the news, pet frogs, frogs in the wild, frog jokes, and more. Features include a section for teachers and parents.
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Handout
Other

The frog.org: Biology, Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
TheFrog.org provides a site dedicated to information and links on frogs. This particular page discusses how the amphibian moves.
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Handout
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Suffield National Wildlife Area: Amphibians at Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Plains Toad and the Northern Leopard Frog live in Suffield National Wildlife Area in Alberta, among other areas. These are two Canadian amphibians whose wetlands habitats are increasingly threatened by human activities....
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Activity
Songs for Teaching

Sciences Songs All Day Long: Nocturnal Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
By listening to this song your students will learn all of the animals that are awake during the night. They will equate the sounds they hear at night with the animals and their sounds in the song.
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Website
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Amphibians Slimy Is Good

For Students 3rd - 8th
An overview of amphibians. Find out why their skin is slimy when they're on dry land.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frog Dissection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using images of a dissection, students learn how to dissect and label a frog. (This flipchart contains actual photographs of a frog dissection.)
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frog Dissection Diagrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using diagrams of a dissection, students learn how to dissect and label the anatomy of a frog.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frogs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a brief introduction to frogs, their habitats, life cycle, and some fun facts!
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Lesson Plan
Other

Adopt a Pond Wetland Curriculum Resource

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Adopt-A-Pond Program was created by the Toronto Zoo for teachers looking for a guide to wetland issues and resources.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Life Cycles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is set up to either teach or review the life cycles of humans, butterflies, frogs, and ducks.
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Activity
Other

Springboard Magazine: The Circle of Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
A brief explanation of life cycle is provided along with pictoral respresentations of three different examples of life cycles (apple tree, butterfly and frog). The term metamorphosis is introduced and the resouce has an interactive...
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Activity
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Cruce De Ranas [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this simulator to obtain a particular species of frog through crossing.