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THE FROG LIFE CYCLE



Topic: The life cycle of a frog Subject Area: Science Year: 4 Curriculum Alignment: [] Teachers: Doa’a El-Youssef, Lexie Turner, Qian Yu, Hannah Oxwell

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Introduction: Animals are a critical part to us in our life. We as teachers believe that it is extremely important for our students to understand the different life cycles that different animals go through. We will be carrying out an activity which it most suitable for students in year 4 which allows them to specifically examine and study the life cycle of a frog. We believe that students should understand the relevance of the different animal’s life cycles. An authentic way of teaching students about the life cycle of a frog is by allowing them to research for themselves about the habitat, shelter and food of a tadpole and then allowing then to engage in an activity which relates to the life cycle of the frog. This activity will allow all the students in the class to be involved and interact with one another. It will be done over a whole school term as this activity goes on for 11 weeks. It is a great activity for students at this age as it consists of practical work as well as theory therefore making it more fun to appealing for the students.

Task Overview: The activity that we have decided to complete with our students is the life cycle of a frog. Prior to starting the activity we will allow the students to undertake research and teachers will be introducing the activity to the students. Students will then commence in the activity starting when the tadpole has legs. They will then investigate when the tadpole becomes a froglet which leads us onto it finally becoming a frog. As the activity is being completed students will be asked to complete a worksheet which contains a few questions about the progress that they see as well as taking photos of the different changes that occur. After the process is complete students will be asked to produce a PowerPoint which will contain information about the progress of the frog and images of the different stages.

References:

sciencewithme.(2010). Frog Life Cycle [image]. Retrieved 15/05/2012 from: []