Frog Metamorphosis

Fourth graders complete activities with the book All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky. In this nonfiction reading lesson, 4th graders receive information from headings, diagrams, charts, and captions. They discuss new vocabulary and complete a...

Crawl into the world of the darkling beetle with this scientific investigation. Watch as the insects move through the larval, pupal, and adult stages of life, recording observations along the way. Discuss the necessities of life as young...

Students participate in a variety of frog activities followed by a frog search and careful observation of discoveries. They describe the basic requirements, adaptations, and life cycle of frogs.

Young scholars define metamorphosis, and discuss frog's metamorphosis from tadpole into adult frog. Students then view pictures of frog eggs, tadpoles in various stages, froglets, and full-grown frogs, and create paper tadpole puppets...

Students complete a unit about the different creatures that can live in a small pond habitat. They create a glossary, create a class Small Pond mural, develop a Frog Fact File, read a variety of books, and conduct research for a report...

Demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly with young scientists. They will read Clara Caterpillar and discuss what they learned about the life cycle of a butterfly and metamorphosis. Then they will create a life cycle wheel of a...

Learners draw adult and baby animals to show the metamorphosis that happens in their lives. In this metamorphosis lesson plan, students do this for reptiles, mammals, birds, insects, and more.

Ever heard of Gastric-brooding frogs? Probably not, because this frog is extinct. But scientists are trying to de-extinct this interesting frog that literally throws up its babies after they undergo metamorphosis in their mother's...

Our narrator, Alberto, describes how tadpoles hatch from their jelly-like eggs, turn into tadpoles, and then grow into fantastic frogs. This nice video is probably student-created, but it is still informative. Point out to learners how...

In this frog vocabulary worksheet, students conduct a word search for reviewing frog facts such as metamorphosis, baby to adult names, frog body parts, and its environments. Students word search seventeen frog vocabulary words.