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@A Frog's Life  @A Frog's Life Teacher's Page   A Frog's Life Student Page   A Frog's Life Reference Page Resource Page Topic: A Frog's Life Year: 2 Subject Area: Science

This Resource Page contains information on websites that provide information related to the 'Frog's Life Cycle'. This resource will assist primary school educators who are wanting access to a diverse range of learning tools. It will contain information and advice for teachers on where to access information, photo galleries and pictures for activities. We researched the Australian Curriculum website to locate the necessary information to be able to compile a lesson plan. The link is: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Year2

Interactive Whiteboard Resources:

The following two resources are interactive whiteboard resources that explore the 5 stages or phases of a frog’s life. These resources can be used throughout the 6 week program, for example, in week 2, a student can click the picture of the baby tadpole (phase 2) in the first resource and the class can all see and listen to what happens during this phase of a frog’s life. This can be repeated each week. In the second resource, students can also look at the different phases each week.

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[] This interactive game can be used at the beginning of week 6 when students have to begin creating their timelines. Students will get an idea of how to create a timeline and what a timeline could look like, and also recaps the stages of the lifecycle. As well as being fun, and helping students create a timeline, this resource can be used as a test to see what the students have learnt throughout the 6 week science lessons.

[] Movie Resource:

This video shows the full lifecycle of a frog, broken into two parts; “living in water as tadpoles and on land as adult frogs”. Although it focusses on the four main stages; the egg, the tadpole, the froglet, and the adult frog, it is clear from the start that there are more stages, which introduces the idea of researching in greater detail. Whilst this video is narrated, it still encourages children to read along, as the writing is quite large, and appears as the words are being spoken, which makes it easy for children to remain engaged. The recap at the end of the video would also be beneficial to students, as it reminds them of what they have just learnt in simple terms. [] Website Lesson This website enables the teacher to have access to information to encourage and enable student's understanding and develop knowledge in relation to the Life Cycle of a Frog. The document describes the frog metamorphosis from spawn through to an adult frog who then produces spawn to ensure the continuation of the cycle.

For Year 2 students I would display the whole picture of the Frog's Life Cycle in week 1 lesson 1. During each week I would cover future stages for the students to focus on the current phase. For example Week 2, I would display the picture of the tadpole and the students would be able to see the first weeks topic on spawn (fertilised eggs). We would discuss the information from the document related to tadpoles in week 2. Then students would type on computers their observations on their individual blog sites related to the frog cycle. This would include comparing the developments and adaptations from the previous week and why they occurred. What are the benefits of the adaptations?

Students will take photographs of tadpoles in the school frog pond. They will need to identify the correct phase of development in the photograph.



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