Last updated: January 22, 2024
Lesson Plan
Fun With Frogs
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- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Science
- Lesson Duration:
- 60 Minutes
- State Standards:
- K-ESS3-1, 1-LS3-1, 2-LS4-1, 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-3, 3-LS3-2, 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2, 5-LS2-1, 6-LS1-5, 7-LS2-2
- Thinking Skills:
- Remembering: Recalling or recognizing information ideas, and principles. Understanding: Understand the main idea of material heard, viewed, or read. Interpret or summarize the ideas in own words.
Essential Question
How do organisms adapt to an environment?
How can one organism influence an ecosystem?
Objective
Students will be able to identify characteristics about frogs and their habitats.
Background
Ten species of frogs make their home at Buffalo National River making them a resource we should learn about and protect. Frogs are amphibians which means they can live on water or land. They need to live near water as their skin must constantly be moist. If it dries out the frog will suffocate.
Preparation
Ensure the following materials are ready prior to giving lesson. Materials include:
- Frog pictures. These are provided in the lesson plan
- Frog call recordings
- Lily pads
- Paper springs
- Glue sticks
- Crayons
- Paper frogs for coloring
Lesson Hook/Preview
Frogs are amazing little creatures, found in every continent except Antarctica. They are amphibians and an important component of the food chain. Pass around the pictures of the 10 frog species found in the Buffalo River.
Procedure
Use the frog pictures provided in the lesson plan for steps 1-7.
Step 1: Using the first two pictures in the lesson plan, introduce frogs as amphibians and cold-blooded animals. Expand on these definitions and check for understanding.
Step 2: Show picture with frog egg clusters. Discuss the formation of these clusters and their purpose.
Step 3: Show tadpole picture. Discuss a frog's life at the tadpole stage.
Step 4: Show picture of frogs in a group and their classification when in groups.
Step 5: Highlight the relationship between frogs and water. How their skin must remain moist in order to survive.
Step 6: Discuss how frogs hunt in the wild and their expansive diet.
Step 7: Highlight evolutionary features of a frog: their ability to hop, hibernation, their unique eyes, and skin colors.
Step 8: Lead students through creating their own hopping frog. Instructions included in lesson plan.
Vocabulary
Amphibian, Cold-blooded, hibernate, frogspawn, tadpoles, herbivore, carnivore