1 - Getting Started ~4 mins
Look at this baby animal. What do you think it will look like when it is all grown up?
Hands up: who has seen a chick, a lamb, or a tadpole before?
2 - Animals Grow and Change ~5 mins
Do baby animals stay the same forever? No. They grow and change.
How do you think a chick changes as it grows up?
3 - Order the Life-stage Cards ~10 mins
In your group, put the frog picture cards in order from youngest to adult.
Point to the youngest. Point to the adult. Tell your group one thing that changed.
A froglet is a little frog with legs (and often still a small tail).
4 - Build the Frog Cycle Together ~7 mins
Watch the board. We will put the frog cards in order. This order is called a life cycle.
Where does the story start? Why does the arrow loop back to the start?
The frog life cycle
5 - Act It Out and Draw ~7 mins
First we act the frog growing up. Curl up small like an egg. Wriggle like a tadpole. Hop a little like a froglet. Then a big frog hop.
Now open your Investigation Journal page. Draw the frog stages from the board in a line from young to adult. Two or three pictures is enough. Make one stage look bigger or different so we can see a change.
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