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We have found a number of resources for both the teacher and the students that may be helpful. Feel free to take a look and we hope you find them useful.

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White Board Resources
Learning Federation This website is a great whiteboard resource for teachers. Please note you will need to sign in for this one.

[|Student Registration] This website is also a fabulous resource for teachers. With suggestions and links that can be placed on the interactive white board in the classroom.

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Website Resources
[|Key information for keeping tadpoles] An informative website for keeping exotic pets. This particularly links to keeping tadpoles and frogs page.

[|Education World Resource] A great website for lesson plans on the life cycles of frogs (click on frog link).

[|Some Extra Activities] This website has a variety of frog activities such as, children's books, riddles, worksheets and online jigsaw puzzles.

[|Technology Resource] This website is very informative about how to keep students safe online.

[|Creating free websites] This page lists and describes some of the easy to use free website creation sites.

[|Information on creating website for children] This is a published article that talks about some of the important elements for creating a successful website for children.

[|Childrens Guide to Website Creating] This site is called Netkids and is a comprehensive site that provides a guide for children of all ages to create a website. It suggests sites according to the purpose of the site.

3RD Grade Website An excellent example of a website created by a Grade Three class.

[|Thinkquest] This is a free website creation site that is recommended as a school site on Net kids. This site can be remain private and is specifically designed as an academic site.

Colouring in pages on a frogs lifecycle Enchanted Learning has designed some great educational colouring in pages. There are five which can be downloaded, from books to sequence cards.

@http://www.crayola.com/for-educators/lesson-plans/lesson-plan/tadpole-to-frog.aspx This links directly to a lesson plan idea where you have students plan, design and create a life cycle of a frog model out of clay. Frog Activities This is directly linked to a frog maze activity, there are also other children's activities available. Frogland website- frog facts, frog jokes, frog games A wonderful website all about frogs, from interesting facts, art galleries, frog cartoons and funny frog jokes.

[|Tux paint] This contains information and comments on the Tux paint program and offers the ability to download the program for free. It is specifically designed for children and is an art program. Please note that many schools already have this program installed on their systems, please check before downloading.

Document Resources
[|frog_song.doc] This is the life cycle song that we have chosen for the assembly item. This song is sung to the tune of Mary had a little Lamb. Please note there are many different life cycle songs available.

[|Biology Resource] Fantastic website which provides detailed word documents on frogs.

[|National Geographic - Teachers Guide PDF] A downloadable 32 page PDF document, which educates students about the mangrove forest and takes a close-up look at the amazing changes a frog goes through as it grows.

Movie and Podcast Resources
Teachertube- educational video on the frog lifecycle A short presentation on the life cycle of a frog, ideal to use on an interactive whiteboard.

[|Life cycle of a frog presentation] This is a fantastic video that provides both actual footage and in-depth written information on the topic.

[|Animated Life cycle of a frog] A 30 second animated presentation on the life cycle of a frog, this would be suitable for a young audience.

[|Youtube - educational lifecycle video] Very informative video showing the life cycle of a fro. It very clearly defines and explains the stages.

Social Network Resources
Kids Blogging Site Designed for school teachers who want to provide their students with a blogging website. A safe a secure site where teachers log into their class blog account and monitor each students entries.

[|Social Website - Proteacher] This links directly to a frog life cycle thread. Note this is a social network site particularly for teachers and it require signing up.

[|Twitter] This links to twitter, a search of life cycle of frogs comes up with several options. This site does require you to sign up to view complete conversation threads.

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