This lesson plan teaches kindergarten students about the life cycle of frogs. It includes reading a book about frog life cycles, learning the three stages (egg, tadpole, frog), and completing activities in centers. Students will create a frog diagram labeling the stages, make a frog life cycle book drawing each stage, and comment on a classroom blog about frogs. The goal is for students to understand the characteristics and life cycle of frogs as part of a larger science and language arts unit on animal life cycles.

1. The Life Cycle of a Frog By: Amy Ferguson

2. About the Lesson: Grade Level: Kindergarten Subject Areas: Science and Language Arts Key Words: Eggs, Tadpole, Frog, amphibian

3. Brief Overview The students will learn about the life cycle of a frog. This lesson is part of a unit on animal life cycles. The students will learn and be able to recite the three stages in the frogs life cycle. In this lesson the students will be in centers. The students will create a frog diagram, make comments in the classroom blog, and draw the stages in the frogs life cycle.

5. Learn that a frog is an amphibian because it lives on land but lays eggs in the water.

6. Ask the students questions from the book

8. NETS Standard 2.a Communication and Collaboration- interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.

9. Center One The students will create a frog life cycle diagram. The students will be expected to recall the three stages in the life cycle and glue them in order on the diagram. The diagrams will be graded with a rubric.

10. Rubric for Diagram

11. Center Two The students will create a frog book. The frog book will have one page for each stage in the life cycle. The students will draw the life cycle stages.

12. Center Three The students will come to the classroom computers two at a time. The students will comment on the classroom blog. The teacher will type the students comments. The teacher will read the comments on the blog to the students

13. Classroom Blog http://arditcha.edublogs.org/

14. Life Cycle Video http://animoto.com/play/akLNW7Fr3pEByW4x6ZOO2w?utm_content=challenger After center time, the students will regroup and review what they learned and discuss the life cycle of the frog again.

15. After the lesson When this lesson is complete, the students would continue learning about frogs. The teacher could teach the students how a frog survives and give the students information about a frog.