Students create drawings from their favorite book with sidewalk chalk.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students read Frog and Toad All Year and investigate the character known as the Ice Cream Monster.  Students...

Students explore the importance of toads and the need for toad habitats in the environment. In this animal habitats instructional activity, students create an adobe habitat for toads by using a clay pot. Students paint their pots and...

Students recognize amphibian adaptations. In this amphibian instructional activity students explore amphibian adaptations that provide for successful living in their environments. A volunteer dresses up with all of the adaptations using...

Second graders construct a pond habitat in the classroom using a small swimming pool partially filled with water, real cattails, a tree log adjoining, and plastic animal life appropriate to a pond setting. They examine the frog in detail...

Students measure respiratory rates on live toads, and the effect water temperature has on their findings.  In this scientific method lesson plan, students record their findings and present them in a graph, comparing the results.