The students had to first find some frog eggs and tadpoles in the area. Next, we collected some samples from home and from our creek behind the school and housed them in our classroom. Some of the sample eggs and tadpoles have to be put in alcohol to send into the project manager to be examined and identified. The examination of the samples will also yield results in water purity. The eggs and tadpoles were then left to develop into frogs.
Fresh algae has to be brought in to replenish the aquarium where the frogs are developing.
The students have also been incorporating frog material into other disciplines. Students were hugging and jumping and congratulating each other on becoming parents. The fourth graders hope that the remaining tadpoles will develop into brother and sister toads. Two toads mating by fertilizing frog eggs. Toads have three mating seasons per year producing many, many toads.