Overview
Discover how to identify frogs in your local area. Students will compare a frog’s features to their own and observe how frogs catch and eat live prey. Allow your students to explore their curiosity of frogs whilst being actively engaged in discovering concepts such as camouflage and metamorphosis through movement, song and play. Join us for fun with frogs!
Background Information
Frogs are quite remarkable creatures, from their adaptations to their lifecycle they are a great animal for students to investigate.
Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforests and wetlands. Australia has 240 known species and they play a key role in many food webs, both as a predator and as prey.
STEM in a Box
You will receive a teacher VC guide that also includes follow-up activities.
Prior Knowledge
No prior knowledge is required.
Learning Intentions
In this program students will:
- Compare their body parts to a frog’s body parts
- Link different parts of a frog’s body with their functions
- Understand the meaning of the term camouflage and metamorphosis
- Learn the life cycle stages of frogs
Activities
In this video conference students will:
- Play “Where’s the frog” game
- Observe live frogs and identify their body parts
- Role play the lifecycle of a frog
- Sing and move to the Metamorphosis song
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
Science: Science as a human endeavour
- Scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments (VC2S2H01)
- Science is used by people in their daily lives, including asking questions and using patterns from observations of the world around them to make scientific predictions (VC2S2H02)
Science: Science understanding
- Plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways (VC2S2U01)
- Plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment (VC2S2U03)
- Plants and animals have basic needs, including air, water, food and shelter; the places where they live meet those needs (VC2S2U02)