Format
1. Introduction to a Frog's Life
2. Disucss the various life stages of their life cycle and what happens in each stage
3. Fun facts about some of our ambassador frogs/toads that we have at the NC Zoo
4. Wrap up
5. Questions and Answers
Objectives
• Students will learn about the different stages of a frog’s life cycle.
• Students will be able to identify and describe (some) of the stages of a frog’s life cycle.
• How do the frog’s life stages appear different from each other?
Standards Alignment
State Standards
North Carolina Standard of Course of Study:
LS.4.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable organisms to survive in changing habitats.
LS. 4.1.2 Use models to explain that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information, and respond to the information in different ways.
LS.4.1.3 Engage in argument from evidence to explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes gives individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
ESS.4.3.1 Ask questions to infer whether changes in an organism's environment are beneficial or harmful.
LS.6.2 Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
LS.6.2.2 Analyze and interpret data to predict how the abiotic factors (such as temperature, water, sunlight, and soil quality) and biotic factors affect the ability of organisms to grow and survive in different biomes (freshwater, marine, temperate forest, rainforest, grassland, desert, taiga, tundra).