Frog metamorphosis: egg to adult

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Frog metamorphosis: egg to adult
4 min2nd3rdScience
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Summary

Traces a frog's life cycle from egg to tadpole to froglet to adult, highlighting how its body changes to live in and out of water.

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Discussion questions

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A frog starts as an egg, hatches into a swimming tadpole with a tail and gills, then grows legs and lungs to become an adult frog.

  1. What is a baby frog called before it grows legs?
  2. How does a tadpole breathe underwater?
  3. What body changes let an adult frog live on land?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: egg, tadpole, gills, life cycle.

Try it: Draw the frog life cycle in order. Mark where it lives in water and where it can go on land.