Upload
candice-ellis
View
215
Download
2
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Life Cycle of the Frog
By:
Sherri Howard
Objectives Students will be able to determine
what a tadpole is. Students will understand the
metamorphoses of the frogs life. Students will be able to describe a frog
habitat.
Egg Stage 1 Frogs are amphibians, which means
that they can live on land and in the water. Frogs begin their life cycle in the water. Female frogs can lay as many as 6,000 eggs in clumps called spawn. Each egg is a ball of jelly. The spawn floats to the top of the pond where the water is warmer and helps the eggs to grow.
Tadpole-Stage 2 After about 10 days
the tadpole is ready to wiggle from the egg. Tadpoles breathe through gills on the outside of their bodies for about 5 weeks.
Tadpole-Stage 3 The back legs
begin to appear and its outside gills begin to disappear. It can still breathe underwater through gills which are inside of its body.
Tadpole-Stage 4 About 1 week after
the legs have appeared the tadpole will begin to develop lungs and then breathes air like us. This means he now needs to come to the surface for air.
Tadpole-Stage 5 At about 10 weeks
the tadpole develops front legs and will not need to eat as it will start to absorb its tail and get food from the nutrients that are in it.
Froglet to Frog After about 3 ½ months the tadpole has
become a froglet and is ready to eat small bugs and spend time out of the water.
The frog continues to grow, it loses its tail completely and leaves the pond. The frog will eat crickets and other insects, bugs, and worms. Frogs need to live in damp places.
The Mature Frog
Fair Use Guidelines: Certain materials are included under
the fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and have been prepared according to the educational fair use guidelines.
Bibliography www.geocities.com/athens/lthaca/403
3/frog.htm www.flickit.com/age4.html http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/lvelem/
frogsandtoads/lifecycle.html My Weekly Reader. Edition 1. April
2,1999. Issue 23. www.weeklyreader.com