• A frog is an Amphibian.

• Amphibian means “double life.”

• They live the first part of its life in water.

• They live the last part of its life on land.

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• A life cycle is a set of changes animals go through as they grow.

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• Frog eggs look like tiny clear blobs with black centers.

• The clear jelly is the shell of the egg.

• It protects the tiny frog and keeps it warm.

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• Tadpoles have a head

and tail.• Like fish, tadpoles have

gills for breathing underwater.

• Tadpoles eat plants. They are herbivores.

• As it changes, the tadpole grows back legs, then front legs.

• Then it’s tail shrinks.• It looses its gills and

lungs grow. http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk

• Froglets look like small adults with a small tail.

• Froglets begin to leave the water and go on land.

• Froglets begin to eat insects.

• Froglets are now carnivores. http://ourworld.com

• A frog is full grown when it does not have a tail.

• Frogs can have babies.

• The life cycle continues.

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1. What does Amphibian mean?

2. What is a Life Cycle?3. What do frog eggs look

like?4. How do Tadpoles

breath?5. What do Froglets eat?6. When is a frog full

grown?

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•http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/scgrade2.asp

•Textbook: Discovery Works, Houghton Mifflin

•Kalman, Bobbie,2002, The Life Cycle of a Frog, Cabtree:New York,NY