Big Idea: Animals have unique adaptations that help them to survive in various environments.

Core Content Objectives:

• Identify how frogs survive in extreme environments. 
• Identify true frog characteristics and attributes. 
• Define food chain and food web. 
• Learn how to become an expert in a topic. 
• How adaptations help frogs survive. 
• Identify similarities and differences between true frogs and “freaky” frogs. 

Next Generation Science Standards

• Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and the variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
• Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

• Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages    in surviving, find mates, and reproducing.
• Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
• Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

• Frog Life Cycle Game
• Characteristics of Amphibians
• Food Chain Game
• Food Web
• Frog BrainPOP Jr. Video
• Possible Causes of Malformed Frogs
• Leaf Folding Frog

Amphibians