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**Educational Topic:** Life Cycle of a Frog

**Target Group:** Yr 4 Students

=Aim: =

To create an authentic teaching resource under the topic 'Life Cycle of a Frog', providing details/suggestions on lessons/activities across the learning areas Science/Maths, English and Art, student work samples and links to the Australian Curriculum. Through this resource, our aim is to present information which teachers can scaffold upon when designing authentic lessons and adapt to suit the requirements of their students.

=Introduction: =

Children have an innate curiosity about the natural world around them. Building upon this curiosity, teachers can create effective and authentic learning experiences which allow children to explore, investigate and be active participants in the learning process. Approaching the 'Life Cycle of a Frog' with a perspective of an integrated curriculum (where the topic is explored not only from the viewpoint of Science but also Maths, English and Art), forms a platform for students to develop a variety of different skills and gain knowledge across multiple learning areas. Integrating technology into the lessons further enriches the learning experience as students are exposed to new software and online tools which can enhance research and presentation skills, motivate student participation, facilitates peer interaction, and add overall depth, dimension and authenticity to tasks which otherwise would be considered mundane and monotonous. = = =Task Overview: =

The task requires students to collect tadpoles and make observations of the different developmental stages, record their observations in the form of online blogs, visual storyboards and spreadsheets, create an artwork piece and finally present their findings to their peers/parents via a group website. The activities would be a blend of individual, small group and whole class tasks where the students will first engage in individual research, observations, record keeping etc and progress to the latter part of the project where they will work in groups of four integrating the data collected individually and presenting the same on a group website.

With the transformation process from frogspawn to a fully grown frog taking approximately 12-16 weeks, it allows for different tasks across the Science/Maths, English and Arts learning areas to be conducted that can be spread over an entire term. Tadpoles are usually between 4-6 weeks old when they are collected so you will need to allow between 8-10 weeks to witness the full transformation from a tadpole to a frog.

*This resource addresses each page as an activity/objective not a particular lesson - as they will span over a range of lessons/learning areas and weeks. We recommend that this type of activity could be used to create a class theme for a term. Allowing teachers to get creative and find a range of different resources, activities in different learning areas to teach the students. Linking all of them into the theme of the 'Life Cycle of the Frog'. Please see our @Extra Teacher Resource page for some ideas.

=Group Presentation: =

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Designed and narrated by Leesa Welch. Uploaded to video by Kira

=Reference: =

www.public-domain-image.com (2012). Candid Frog [Image, Home page]. Retrieved 05/05/2012 from: www.public-domain-image.com/.../frog.../candid-frog.jpg.html