Discovering Frog Eggs
On our farm in Royalton we find frog eggs in the vernal pools of the woods, in pools near the water fall, and in setbacks along the banks of the river.
Come search with us for frog eggs...
Photo Credit: Frog Spawn
from Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
Frog Egg Table of Contents
- Frog Eggs
- Frog Eggs in the Vernal Pool
- Frog Eggs vs. Toad Eggs
- Compare Frog Eggs with Toad Eggs
- Leopard Frogs and Frog Eggs
- Field Guide to Frogs
- Frog Eggs
- Reading about Frog Eggs
- Building a Frog Pond
- Frog Unit Study Puzzle Center
- Frog Eggs in the Sensory Table
- Tadpoles in the Sensory Table
- Frog Spawn Place Value
- Look Who's Twittering about Frog Eggs
- Hands-on Learning
- Continue the Frog Unit Study
- Searching for Frogs on Garner Rix's Farm
- Ribbiting Tales of Frog Egg Encounters:
- About the Author of this Frog Egg Lens:
Frog Eggs
Compare them to chicken eggs. Make a Venn Graph showing the unique characteristics of frog eggs and chicken eggs as well as their similarities.
- Tallying Tadpoles
Maxell and his researchers count the number of eggs at each pond, cage the eggs, then come back later to count the number of hatchlings that resulted from those eggs. They return to get an estimate of the metamorphosed animals, and again to estimate the number of adult frogs.- A Meaningful Day: Frog Lapbooks
- Tapioca can be used to simulate frog eggs.
Frog Eggs in the Vernal Pool
The Perfect Habitat to Lay Frog Eggs
Photo Credit: Looking for Frog Eggs
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
By taking trips to the frog pond daily you will be able to notice when the frogs first lay their eggs. Keep track of that date, the date that you first notice the embryos moving inside the eggs and when the tadpoles finally emerge.
Keep watching and you will see legs grow and eventually see the fully grown adults start to breath with their lungs and hop out of the water.
Frog Heaven: Ecology of a Vernal Pool
This thoroughly researched book introduces a vernal pool in the woods of Delaware and documents the ecology of this unique habitat during the cycle of a year.
Focusing on one animal after another, he shows not only the variety of life supported by the pool but also the complex, interconnected ecosystem that depends not just on the pool but upon the fact that it dries up annually.
This cycle limits the animals the pool can support and creates an environment where certain species thrive, unthreatened by fish or by the year-round presence of certain other predators.
Amazon Price: $17.95 (as of 11/11/2009) 
Frog Eggs vs. Toad Eggs
Comparing Frog and Toad Eggs
Do you know the difference between frog eggs and toad eggs?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byFrog eggs are:
nightbear says:
Only what I have learned from your remarkable lens. But I love little tadpoles.
Posted May 19, 2009
Toad eggs are:
Compare Frog Eggs with Toad Eggs
What is the difference between frog eggs and toad eggs?
Photo Credit: Frog Eggs on Flickr, Creative Commons.Photo Credit: Toad Eggs on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Icr Frogs & Toads - Pbk (Deluxe) (I Can Read About)
Excerpt - page 15: ... Frogs lay eggs in round clusters. This differs from toads. They lay their eggs in long, thin strips that twist ...
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Leopard Frogs and Frog Eggs
Frog Calling for a Mate
Field Guide to Frogs
How to Identify Frogs by sight or sound.
Variety of Amphibians
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We have a shelf of guidebooks available to look up any plant or animal we encounter. This guide to Frogs shows pictures and explains the characteristics of all the frogs in North America. We keep the accompanying CD in the listening center to learn the frog calls.
The Frogs and Toads of North America: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification,Behavior, and Calls
A beautiful and comprehensive photo-filled guide that is the first to show all of the frogs of North America and includes a CD of their calls
Colorful and noisy early indicators of environmental distress, frogs and toads are fascinating to casual nature lovers as well as expert herpetologists.
Covering all 101 species in the United States and Canada, this book contains natural history information, identification tips, range and habitat information, summaries of behavior, and descriptions of calls.
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/11/2009)
Frog Eggs
When you go searching for frog eggs you never know what you might find:
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Reading about Frog Eggs
Metamorphoses from Egg to Frog
These are two of my favorite books for reading with children about the metamorphoses of frogs from egg to adult. Though they like the illustrations and learning about the lifecycle of frogs if you have taken the time to actually go to a vernal pool to see frog eggs, returned daily to watch them grow and continue until they grow legs and lungs, the children will truly love these books.
Frog's Eggs (Read All About It-Science)
Three children find some frog spawn and take it home and keep it in an aquarium.
This book follows the life cycle of the frog using text, illustrations and photographs.
The intention of the book is to bridge the gap between fiction and non-fiction.
Amazon Price: $6.40 (as of 11/11/2009)
Egg, Tadpole, Frog (Metamorphoses)
All living things change as they grow.
Follow the transformation from a tiny egg to a frog.
Amazon Price: $11.04 (as of 11/11/2009)
Building a Frog Pond
Backyard Wildlife Pond
If you don't live close enough to a frog pond to visit daily, it's time to build one. Frog ponds are easy to build and maintain, educational and help to keep the mosquitoes away.-
Build a Classroom Frog Pond
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When you are trying to learn about frogs there is nothing that can beat having your own backyard frog pond. Teaching about frogs and pond life I found that daily trips to the frog pond offer opportunities for children to observe frogs in all their st...
Frog Unit Study Puzzle Center
Frogs and Eggs for the Puzzle Center
Beleduc From Egg to Frog 5-Layer Puzzle
A great 5 layer 30 piece puzzle made of birch that teaches about the life cycle of frogs - from tadpole to full-grown.
Amazon Price: $8.74 (as of 11/11/2009)
Frog Eggs in the Sensory Table
Watching Tadpoles Hatch
A see through sensory table allows children to lie underneath to watch the tadpole hatch from the frog eggs from a unique perspective.
PLEASE NOTE: It is important to teach children how to respect nature and all living creatures. These tadpoles are for observing not touching.
They need to be released back to the area where they came from as soon as they turn into frogs.
Tadpoles in the Sensory Table
Watching the frog eggs hatch.
Photo Credit: Frog Lyfecycle
from Sparklebox.
One year we collected some frog eggs from a vernal pool and placed them in the see through sensory table. We collected water from the pool let it reach room temperature before exchanging about a fourth of the water once a week.
The see through sensory table allows the children to watch what is happening not only from above but also from the sides and most intriguing from the bottom. I place a cushion from an old couch under the sensory table and that becomes another center for the Frog Unit Study.
I set up another sensory table with water, mud and replica frogs for children to actually touch.
Insect Lore Frog Life Cycle Stages
Accurately detailed hatching frog eggs, tadpoles, froglets and adult frog replicas are oversized for little hands.
Amazon Price: $8.39 (as of 11/11/2009)
SEE-THRU SENSORY TABLE
See through sensory tables allow children to see what's happening from the sides and below as well as above.
Amazon Price: $325.95 (as of 11/11/2009)
BOX OF 6 2 RUGGED REST MAT
Amazon Price: $173.74 (as of 11/11/2009)
Frog Spawn Place Value
Frog Themed Place Value Workjobs
Frogs lay their eggs in clusters and toads lay their eggs in strings.To reinforce this concept and to practice place value go to the Frog Unit Study and scroll down to the Math section. Fun Math workjob and learning center idea.
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond, play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool families and classro...
Look Who's Twittering about Frog Eggs
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- piratedoctor
- There is something wrong with blocking off 16.5 hours in a week to studying frog and chicken eggs.
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- JJNW
- @evelynsaenz Hi! I never know which ones are frog eggs. Do you have a page with pictures?? Thanks fellow Squidoo.com pal!
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- evelynsaenz
- Likes Frog Eggs: Each year we eagerly await the arrival of spring to listen to the Spring Peeper an... - http://likaholix.com/r/opX #science
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- slinkygenius
- http://twitpic.com/p0brs - have you heard of granadilla? fish eyes, snot or frog eggs? Such a good fruit!
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- penkapp
- Holy shit and frog eggs! What's that there white stuff fallin' from the sky?
Hands-on Learning
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byContinue the Frog Unit Study
Photo Credit: Frog Pond
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
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Frog Geometry
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As teachers and homeschoolers we often think of math a subject totally unrelated to the theme we are studying. In this lens I hope to dispel l this myth. Using the frog theme we will explore geometric shapes. From the circular bubbles rising up from...
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond, play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool families and classro...
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Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond
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Are Vernal Pools in remote rural areas of Vermont being destroyed by industrial waste? Come on a walk in the early spring. Walk through the cold wet mud and try not to slip on the remaining spots of ice as we go on a hunt for frog eggs and discover s...
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The Frog Report
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Find out what is going on in the world of frogs? There are reports of frogs being arrested in Nevada and frogs that make so much noise that that home values are going down in the neighborhood. Maybe the most disturbing, however, are the reports of...
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Frog Art Center
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Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frogs to painting, clay, sculptures, origami, frog cakes, Moche, Totem Poles and much much more... Children thrive with a hands-on. creative learning experiences that help them illustrate all that they a...
Searching for Frogs on Garner Rix's Farm
Garner Rix's Farm has Vernal Pools
Do you know Garner Rix? He moved to Vermont in 1780, cleared the land and built the farm that I live on in Vermont. The descendants of the frogs he found in 1780 are still found in the vernal pools on his farm.-
Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
Ribbiting Tales of Frog Egg Encounters:
Have you ever discovered frog eggs?
Tell us all about your experiences with frog eggs.
alteredkat wrote...
Very cool lens!
I remember as a kid finding tadpoles...
LOL...ElizabethJeanAllen made me laugh with her comment!
Great pics btw!...my kids are going to love this lens!
Posted November 06, 2009
Joan4 wrote...
Tadpoles in the Sensory Table! My goodness! I wish you could be my teacher! Wow! You are an awesome educator! You make me want to go back to elementary school! Blessed by a joyful angel!
Posted May 25, 2009
About the Author of this Frog Egg Lens:
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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