Students for Frogs
Introduction | Students for Frogs
Introduction
Do you love frogs? Why not get your whole school to help SAVE THE FROGS! We have some ideas for you below. If you get your school involved, or get an article written about SAVE THE FROGS!, please let us know and we can mention you or your school on this page.
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SAVE THE FROGS! Frog Art & Frog Poetry Contests
Please tell your friends and teachers about the 1st Annual SAVE THE FROGS! Frog Art Contest and concurrent 1st Annual SAVE THE FROGS! Poetry Contest. There will be cash prizes, and the finest poetry and artwork will be included in the book of Frog Poems & Frog Art that gets published as a result. The book will be distributed worldwide, with all proceeds going to SAVE THE FROGS! amphibian conservation projects. Please post this flyer up around your school.
Hand out the SAVE THE FROGS! flyer
We've made an informational flyer that will help out with any of the activities listed below. You can get the PDF here or get the Word document here.
Have a fundraiser
Have a fundraiser for SAVE THE FROGS!. Each year, we will thank the school that raised the most money for SAVE THE FROGS! by acknowledging their contribution at the top of the Students for Frogs web page for an entire year.
Here are a few thoughts on ways to raise money: (1) collect money from parents or team members' parents. Provide students some incentive, maybe a free Frogs of Australia poster or 100% organic cotton SAVE THE FROGS! t-shirt for whoever collects the most money; (2) have a bake sale or a raffle; (3) get your parents to collect money at their workplaces; (4) start a SAVE THE FROGS! Chapter at your school, and sell SAVE THE FROGS! bumper stickers, t-shirts, pins, wristbands that we may be able to provide you.
If your school donates $2,000 or higher, SAVE THE FROGS! can create an Amphibian Conservation Award in the name of your school, i.e. the Johnson Middle School Award for Amphibian Conservation. You can find details on our Donations and Awards pages. If you contact the local paper/tv station it would make a good story, be fun for students, and serve as good advertisement for SAVE THE FROGS!.
Is our Frogs of Australia poster in your school?
What better way to educate your classmates about frogs than to have one of our Frogs of Australia posters hanging in your science classroom? Talk to your science teacher about getting one. Even better, with some group effort you can probably convince your school board to purchase a poster for every school in your county or state (this makes a good group project)! Remember that proceeds from poster sales go to SAVE THE FROGS! amphibian conservation projects.
Here's what to do: write a paragraph about why frogs are important, and why schools should have the poster up on their science clasroom walls. Send the list to your local school or state school board. Make sure you tell them that the poster is available at the SAVE THE FROGS! website http://savethefrogs.com/frog-store/index.html and that they can get a discount if they buy in bulk.
Get important frog habitat protected
You could also collect signatures for a petition and send it to your local legislators, convincing them to permanently protect a pond or stream that serves as important frog habitat. Make sure to let your legislator know that it would help not only frogs, but also their environmental record (which is important to voters), and that it would make a good story in the local newspaper. Also, be sure to inform your legislator that SAVE THE FROGS! may be able to certify them "Frog-Friendly" (they can learn more on our Politicians for Frogs page).You can contact your local herpetological society to to see if they know of any frog habitats that are in need of protection.
Build a frog pond at your school
If every school had a frog pond we would have a lot more frogs! Get some pond-building tips here. Building a frog pond gets a lot of students involved, and makes for a good news story that your local paper or television station would be sure to cover.
Write an article on frog declines for your newspaper
Write an articles on frog declines for the school or local newspaper. This is a great way to raise awareness. Feel free to paraphrase from this web site. Or if you have film-making skills why not make a short commercial or story and see if your local station will air it? Make sure to mention that people can donate to SAVE THE FROGS! and find other ways to help at www.savethefrogs.com.
Remember that if you or your school does something to help SAVE THE FROGS! we can mention your contribution on our Students for Frogs page!
Join The Official Facebook Fan Group
If you have a Facebook page, please join our group and then invite your friends to join. It's a great way for us to stay in touch with you, and it helps us find a lot of new people who wouldn't otherwise end up on this page. We're working on having 1,000,000 members by the end of 2009, so help us get the word out!
Put savethefrogs bumper sticker on your notebooks
What beter way to make other students aware the amphibian extinction crisis than to put some cool bumper stickers in visible locations?
Recommended Reading
Chief Seattle's 1854 speech on the environment
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
Travels in Alaska - John Muir
Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
Sacred Balance - Rediscovering Our Place in Nature - David Suzuki
Our National Parks - Ansel Adams
Captain Paul Watson's free blog
Seal Wars - Captain Paul Watson
Ocean Warrior - Captain Paul Watson
Recommended Viewing
Whale Wars
Winged Migration
Don't depend on anybody else!
Your parents' generation has not done a very admirable job of safeguarding the environment for you or your children. Environmental destruction is ongoing and in many respects accelerating. Take matters into your own hands!
Students for Frogs
Thomas Ferguson - Southend Primary School, UK
Save the Frogs
Go and save the frogs
green or brown colouration
very wide mouth or warts and ridges on skin
go and save frogs.
Go and save frogs
green and black, wet, webbed feet,
so wonderful.
Go and save frogs
red and blue with black eyes
so big with short limbs that jump very high.
Go and save frogs
Black spots on back
with green skin and black bands on legs.
Go and save the frogs
bright bulging eyes
long powerful hind legs
that spring high in the air.
GO AND SAVE FROGS!
Vanessa B. - 10 yrs old - Wallingford, CT
Vanessa raffled off a webkinz frog at Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School and raised $75 for SAVE THE FROGS!. Thanks Vanessa and Wintergreen!
Noe Ramirez - 14 yrs old - Arlington, VA
Catherine Flickner - 17 yrs old - Alexandria, VA
Serenity - 10 yrs old - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
I love frogs but sadly they are going extinct. It’s our job to stop this nonsense that we are creating. With just enough people we can save the frogs and other amphibians out there.
Frogs are being threatened by pollution, infectious diseases, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, over-harvesting to the pet and food trades. If we continue to let this happen amphibian species will continue to vanish and it could get so bad that there are irreversible solutions and could affect our earth’s ecosystems.
Why frogs you ask, well the adult frog eats insects that can give us diseases or fatal illnesses, like mosquitoes or malaria. The tadpole (baby frog) keeps waterways clear by eating that icky stuff called algae. Frogs serve as important food to such predators as monkeys, dragonflies, fish, snakes and birds. Do you see why frogs are important? Guess what, that was only a few reasons!!
Frogs even help us humans with our health. You see they produce skin secretions that can help human health through their use in pharmaceuticals. Every time a frog species dies so does its promise to improve the human medicine. Do you see why we need to save the frogs?
There are 6,317 amphibian species and 5,576 are frogs and toads and 566 are newts and salamanders and 175 of them are caecilians.
Did you know that the largest frog is the Goliath Frog, which can be as long as a foot and can weigh up to 6.6 lbs. The world’s smallest frog is the Brazilian Frog, which is only 0.6in when it’s fully-grown. Have you ever seen a six-legged frog? It may sound weird but a lot of frogs are malformed. How sad!
A lot of people have already made their donation, now you can too. Go to www.savethefrogs.com and find ways that you can help.
We can make a difference one hop at a time!
SAVE THE FROGS!
Marisa - 12 yrs old - Tiffin, Ohio
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