All About Frogs: Games, Activities and Unit Studies

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A Thematic Unit about Frogs

Children learn best when engaged in hands-on, creative learning projects that excite and keep them focused. A frog theme lends itself to just that type of experience. Here you will find a collection of lenses leading to games, learning activities and projects all related to frogs.

Of course there are the frog books and science projects but have you ever taught frog geometry? How about Swat the Verb Flies or skip counting the frog prints in the mud?

Hop down through this lens and then jump over to the tadpole lenses that have spawned from this Frog Unit Study. You're going to have a ribbiting good time with all these frog activities...

Photo Credit: Frog
in the Public Domain.

Language Arts

Best Frog Book 

FR for Frog

FR for Frog
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There are so many wonderful frog stories but if I could pick only one frog fiction book I would pick one of the Frog and Toad books. Children love them, the characters are always kind to eachother and there are many themes in the stories to connect to other areas of the curriculum.

One of my children's favorite activities is to use highlighter tape (It clings but doesn't stick) to find all the words with the fr blend in them as in the word frog.

Days with Frog and Toad

Days with Frog and Toad

by: Arnold Lobel

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Frog and Toad Are Friends

Frog and Toad Are Friends

by: Arnold Lobel

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Frog Unit Study 

Frog Themed Lessons

Frog Unit Study is the lesson that started it all off. With ideas from every corner of the pond this lens has been in the top 100 for nearly a year and even made it into the top 10 for about a month. Considering that there are over 750,000 Squidoo lenses, that's not bad.

In this lens there are suggested books, math activities, science and social study projects as well as art, music and physical education. Hop on over for more frog ideas than you could fit in a frog pond.
featured lens Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond

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...

featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

Math

My favorite Frog Math Book 

Hands-on Frog Math

Frog Math

If I could only own one frog math book this would be the one. With hands-on creative activities that teach each of the math standards in a fun, creative, active way it is a must have book.
Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play (Great Explorations in Math & Science)

Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play (Great Explorations in Math & Science)

by: Jaine Kopp

n an artful interweaving of mathematics and literature, this series of lively mathematics activities jumps off from one of the well-known "Frog and Toad" stories, "The Lost Button."

The story leads to free exploration of buttons, then sorting and classifying and a "Guess the Sort" game. Students design their own buttons and use a graphing grid to organize data.

Students also "guesstimate" the number of small plastic frogs in a jar and the number of lima beans in a handful to develop the valuable life skill of estimating.

A "Frog Pond" board game helps students develop strategic-thinking skills. The "Hop to the Pond Game" is an experiment in probability and statistics. In the newly revised guide, all grade levels play the fair version of "Hop to the Pond" with six frogs. Then grades 1-3 play the unfair version with 12 frogs.

Emphasis throughout is on student cooperation.

The California Math Council has named Frog Math as a recommended replacement unit.

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Frog Math Center 

Frog Math Games, Activities and Workjobs

Frog Facts
featured lens Learning to Count with Frogs

Learning to count can be a joyful hop around the Frog Pond. With this froggy theme, children count their way around the frog board, count the flies the frog eats and count the hidden frogs. From counting to 10 to helping in annual Frog Monitoring pr...

featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

featured lens Froggy Math Facts

Continuing the Frog Unit Study this lens is all about adding and subtracting with frogs. Children learn best when given hands-on multi-sensory projects and games that relate to the overall subject being studied. With dozens of frog related addition...

featured lens Frog Pattern Math

When planning activities for your Frog Unit Study you might think that math would be an abstract subject that has nothing to do with frogs. In this lens we will explore ways to integrated math into your study of frogs and tadpoles. Mathematics is ba...

featured lens Frog Geometry

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...

Science

Best Non-Fiction Frog Book 

Frog Catching Butterfly, Including Life-Cycle of the Frog

Frog Catching Butterfly, Including Life-Cycle of the Frog
English School
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Gorgeous pictures, text that is easy to understand yet factual and informative, Jim Arnosky's book All About Frogs is the very best book to own about frogs.

Taking a hint from this book I made copies of a simple outline of a frog for the children to use as they discovered different species of frogs. The children copied the markings and colored the frogs and then labeled it.

By using plastic page protectors we have turned these sheets into a frog guidebook that is added to each year. Children love to look at drawings their older brothers and sisters made years ago and work hard to find new species that have not yet been added to the book.

We have begun adding maps to the back of the pages to show where the frogs live.
All About Frogs (All About...)

All About Frogs (All About...)

by: Jim Arnosky

Arnosky takes full advantage of the greens in his palette for this exemplary introduction.

Clear, simple text is complemented by careful, informative acrylic illustrations on every page.

From the beginning definition of an amphibian to the more esoteric fact that frogs use their eyeballs to push their prey down their throats, the careful precision of word choice makes this book both understandable to and respectful of the serious intent of young researchers.

The paintings introduce many types of frogs as they elucidate the points made in the text.

Captions indicate which illustrations are life-size, and black silhouettes clarify anatomical features.

Arnosky ends with a plea for protecting the animals' environment.

Among the many introductory books about frogs, this is one of the best.

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Frogs are Amphibians 

Learn about Frog Science

Learn about frogs from a scientific point of view. Observe the growth of frogs from the eggs to tadpole to adult frogs. Learn the difference between frogs and toads. Do experiments to learn about the frog's habitat.
featured lens Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond

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...

featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

featured lens Frog Eggs

Each year we eagerly await the arrival of spring to listen to the Spring Peeper and anticipate the discovery of frog eggs in the vernal pools. Frogs lay their eggs in pools, ponds, and puddles. As snow melts, low lying areas fill with water and frogs...

featured lens Tadpoles To Frogs

My son and I have been watching the frog life cycle unfold before our eyes. Over the past few weeks, we've recorded in photos and text our discoveries as we observed frog eggs hatch into tadpoles, and then tadpoles grow, change shape and metamor...

Social Studies

Save the Frogs! 

Save the Frogs

Save the Frogs! 

Frogs in the News!

Frogs are endangered throughout the world. What have we humans done to create this situation and what can we do to save the frogs.
featured lens The Frog Report

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...

Art

Art Contest 

Save the Frogs Art Contest

Save the Frogs Art Contest



When is the entry deadline?

All entries are to be either digitally submitted or postmarked no later than 11:59pm U.S. Eastern Time on Friday, July 10th, 2009.

Who can enter?

Anybody! We encourage students and teachers to get their art classes involved. We encourage amateur and professional artists and graphic designers to take part as well. And the more countries represented the better!

The contest is free to enter!

Winners will be announced no later than August 30th, 2009.

Cooking Up some Froggy Art 

Frog Cookies

Let your children practice their artistic talents by decorating froggy cookies. Don't forget to add and subtract the frogs as you make and eat them.

Photo Credit: Frog Cookies
on Flickr, Creative Commons.

Frog Art 

Creating Frogs

Learn to draw, paint, sculpt and create beautiful works of frog art. Make paintings and drawings to illustrate your writing or use toilet paper tubes and construction paper to make a recycled toy for a kitten to play with. Learn about the world of frog art.
featured lens Frog Art Center

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...

Music

Singing a Frog Song to Start the Day 

Photo Credit: Frog
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There's nothing like singing a frog song to get the day off to a good start. I make charts with the words written in large letters so that everyone can see. One little tadpole (student) is chosen each day to hold the pointer to help us all stay on track and we sing.

Sometimes we sing 5 Green and Speckled Frogs and others we might sing Gat- Goom Went the little green frog one day...

Whenever we can we use a Catnine Tail for the pointer. It is important for child to have as much exposure to nature and natural things as possible.

Sing a song of Frogs! 

Frog Music!

From Five Green and Speckled Frogs to making your own frog pond rhythm band, learn all about frogs through music.
featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

Physical Education

Leap Frog! 

Keep your body healthy while playing physical games such as Leap Frog, learning how to do the Broad Jump or swimming the Breast Stroke.
featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

Lapbooks and Literacy Bags

Culminating the Frog Unit Study 

Froggy Homework and Evaluation

For children going to school, Literacy Bags are so much fun that children will beg to take their homework home.

Lapbooks are often used by homeschoolers as a portfolio that shows off what they have learned.
featured lens ThinkFun Hoppers Frog Game

ThinkFun Hoppers is my newest purchase. When I look for a game to buy for my children I look for something fun, hands-on and educational. ThinkFun Hoppers frog game has all of those attributes. ThinkFun Hoppers is like a frog-style Rush Hour game. An...

featured lens Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and 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 fam...

featured lens Froggy Backpacks: Hopping Back to School

Backpacks are not just for carrying lunches back and forth to school. They are a way for your child to express himself or herself to the world. What better way for a frog loving child to hop back to school than a froggy themed backpack. Your child&#...

featured lens Literacy Bags Make Homework Fun!

Book Bags. Home Bags, Book Buddies, Story Bags... Literacy Bags are a fun way to help children share what they are learning with their families. Children take these literacy bags home, read the stories, do the activities with their families and then...

Letters from the Lily Pad 

Frog Letter

Photo Credit: Frog Note
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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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