Students identify the message behind a story and elements of a story. Students identify characteristics and habitats of frogs and toads. Students recognize differences and handicaps as normal and acceptable. Students recognize examples of stereotype and bias on television. Students learn that deaf children are like them in many ways.
Students use technology to communicate what they have learned.
Videos, poetry, and picture books about frogs and toads are available in the classroom to be read and watched and discussed with students, concentrating on the feelings of the characters in the stories. Students can also do a web with a character from each story in the middle and words to describe that character on the lily pads. Students could also write short poems about frogs and illustrate them. Resources from the Children's Museum are also available and each class will receive live tadpoles in a science kit. Students come to the media center to hear four versions of The Frog Prince and to discuss the different points of view of each storyteller.