Environmental Education
Environmental education is an integral part of any student's educational development. Schools must help to instill a love and knowledge of the environment in their students, and this begins at an early age.
If you have experience in environmental education and would like to help us develop this web page, or produce any of the educational information or lesson plans, please contact us. Please also take part in our Teachers Forum, where you can log into the site and contribute your ideas and experieces directly.
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Save The Frogs Day is April 30th, 2010 - Get Involved!
In an effort to raise awareness for amphibian conservation efforts, herpetologists have declared April 30th, 2010 the 2nd Annual Save The Frogs Day. Get your students involved and please tell your colleagues! Be sure to register your participation if you plan to take part.
Teaching materials for children under 11
Information about Frogs: These materials are written using symbols, to support children and people with special educational needs. The symbols are to help support learning new concepts and words.
Table of Contents
Amphibian Fact Sheet
Frog Life Cycle (Long)
Frog Life Cycle (Short)
Frog Activities: Fun activities for exploring the world of frogs and their diversity.
Am I Real?
Color Your Own Frog
Origami Inflatable Frog
Origami Jumping Frog
Bingo
Counting Book
Frog Activity Book
Pairs
Word Search
Writing Paper
These resources were created by Red Frog Member Cate Detheridge.
How To Help Save Frogs posters
We have created several educational posters specifically for biology classrooms and school hallways. As a discount for schools, we can send you a free poster with each poster that you order. All you have to do is order a poster and then email us from a school email address informing us you just ordered a poster and requesting we include a free poster in that order. Please specify which poster you would like as the free 2nd poster (or we will choose one for you!).
Help start a SAVE THE FROGS! Chapter at your school
We would like students to distribute SAVE THE FROGS! information packets at their schools, raise money for frog conservation, and get other students motivated and involved. If you would like to help start a SAVE THE FROGS! chapter at your school, please contact us.
SAVE THE FROGS! Art, Poetry & Essay Contests
Please get your students involved in the SAVE THE FROGS! Frog Art Contest, Frog Poetry Contest, and Frog Essay Contests. Schools worldwide will be participating. There will be CASH PRIZES, and the finest entries will be included in a book that will be distributed worldwide, with all proceeds going to SAVE THE FROGS! amphibian conservation projects.
You have no frog background? No problem!
Informational flyers are available on our Spread The Word page, which we will update regularly. The key points that all teachers should always mention to their classes are:
(1) Frogs are the most threatened group of animals on the planet, and are rapidly going extinct. Nearly one-third of the world's 6,468 amphibian species are in danger of extinction and up to 200 species have completely disappeared in the last 30 years.
(2) Frogs are important to the ecosystem and to humans. See our Why Frogs page for more information.
(3) The primary threats to frogs are habitat destruction; pollution and pesticides; climate change; infectious diseases spread by human activity; over-harvesting for the pet and food trades; and invasive species such as introduced trout, crayfish and non-native amphibians. Please visit our Threats to Frogs page for more information.
(4) Students can help save frogs. Please visit our How to Help page for more information.
(5) Frogs are cool! Check out our Cool Frog Facts page.
Lesson Plan #1: Poetry
An excellent way to make young children aware of the environmental issues facing frogs is to introduce them to the threats to frogs, and then have them write frog poems:
The Frog Poem
by Emily Ronald
Southend Primary School
The frog might be slimy and in some spells
But right now it’s living in a frog hell.
Most people hate them and think they’re evil but
I want to save them unlike the French who eat them!!!
A frog might be green or maybe red
But next thing you know they’ll all be dead!
Once upon a time they were bad creatures with their absolutely
Horrible slimy looking features.
Now they’re not so bad and I am glad that there
is not so many superstition filled heads!
Now the poor old frog’s dying and lots of people
are trying to help them on their journey to frog domination!!
I am one of those people so please don’t make
our country a fly filled nation!
Please help the frog and not the fly do you want
flies to rule and frogs to die? NO!!!
So go onto www.savethefrogs.com!!!
Get your students involved in the 1st Annual Frog Poetry Contest!
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Environmental Education