Lifecycle of a Frog

A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in English

At the end of the lesson students will be able to:

Students will name in order the stages of a frog’s life cycle.

II. Subject Matter Topic:

The Life Cycle of Frog

References:

Online Science Information

III. Materials

Worksheets, Visual Aids, Pictures, and Laptop for Video Presentation

IV. Teaching and Learning Procedures A. Routine Matters

Attendance

Prayer

B. Motivation

I will present a video to the class titled “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” where they can sing along.

C. Explanation

What kind of animal did you see in the video? It’s what we call a frog. So today we will discuss The Life
Cycle of a Frog. (I will present first another video about The Life Cycle of Frog after that is the discussion)

A frog belongs to the group called Amphibians; Amphibians are cold-blooded vertebrates.

(vertebrates have backbones)

that don’t have scales. They live part of their lives in water and part on land. The process in which one
body changes into another body is what we call.

Metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis is the changes that a frog goes through during its life cycle. There are four main stages in
the life cycle of a frog. Frogs have a life cycle with two parts, living in water as tadpoles and on land as
adults.
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The first stage in the life cycle of the frog is the egg. A frog lays many eggs at one time. The eggs are
covered with a jellylike coating. The egg mass laid by a frog. Each of those black dots is made up of a
bunch of cells that will eventually grow into a tadpole. Depending on the species, these egg masses can
be made up of several hundred eggs!

The second stage of the frog life cycle is the tadpole. Within a few days, the eggs develop into tadpoles.
Tadpoles live completely underwater. After a few weeks, a hormone in the tadpole’s thyroid gland
initiates metamorphosis. Hatched tadpoles have gills for breathing in the water. They have a tail, but no
legs. Over about a 24 hour period, the tadpole develops into a frog. This means almost every organ must
change so the tadpole can go from living underwater to living on land as an adult frog. In this picture you
can see the tadpole has started to grow hind legs. After the hind legs have started to form, a pair of front
legs will begin to develop, and the tail will start to disappear. You might also notice that the tadpole has
started to form a frog-like face. The tadpole’s skull is made from cartilage (the same stuff your nose and
ears are made from) but during metamorphosis, the cartilage is replaced with bone.

The next stage of the frog life cycle is the froglet (Young Frog). When the tadpole reaches the froglet
stage, it is almost a full adult. At this point, the tadpole’s gills have disappeared, and its lungs have
enlarged. This means it is ready to leave the water and live on land. Once its tail disappears, it will
become an adult frog.

Once the lungs form and begin to work, the gills and tail disappear. As you have just read, frogs go
through a lot to get to this phase. They even

go through changes that aren’t visible in these pictures. The tadpole’s horny teeth, once used to tear up
plants, disappear and tongue muscles develop to catch insects. The tadpole’s large intestine, important
for digesting algae and plants, shrinks to suit the frog’s meat-eating diet.

V. Generalization

It is important to know about the world and things that live in it with us. If you ever want an animal as a
pet, you need to know how to take care of it and know what to expect as it grows. It gives you an idea of
where they came from and how did they grew same as learning through curiosity.

VI. Application

Group yourself into 5 groups, now I want you to count 1 to 5 if done arrange yourself according to your
group. What are you going to do is I want you to make your own collage out of any materials you want
about the life cycle of a frog. Just use your creativity.

VII. Evaluation
Let’s have first a 1-5 quiz. And after that you will answer the following activity, for the crossword pictures
write the correct names that correspond to the pictures. Write it across or down, it depends on the
number. For the Maze and Lastly, For the Word Search find and encircle the word in the scrambled
letters.

VIII. Assignment

In a one-half sheet of paper write in a 3 to 4 sentences of what I know about Frog Life Cycles?

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