Free Frog Resource Unit & Notebooking Pages
Do you have frog-loving kids? If so, this unit is for them! Below you’ll find lots of links, videos and activities that will guide you and your children on a fun learning adventure about frogs and toads!
At the end of this unit, there is a list of books and apps that may assist you during this study. You will also find lots of free notebooking pages. You can download from the online shops (links below). Please read my terms of use to learn more about my freebies.
I hope you enjoy this unit. I definitely could have added so much more! If you have some great resources, feel free to add them to the comments area.
I’m considering creating other units like this. If you have a minute, I’d love your feedback about this study. It will help me in planning future units and how I might make them better. Thank you!
Download Notebooking Pages:
Currclick.com TeachersPayTeachers Teachers Notebook
The words below are linked to their definitions. The number/letter indicates the correct definitions from the website provided.
- frog (1a)
- toad (1)
- amphibian
- vertebrates
- cold-blooded (2)
- backbone (1)
- pond
- egg (1a)
- embryo
- spawn
- tadpole
- metamorphosis (3)
- hibernate
- carnivore
- predator
- algae
- lung (1a)
- webbed
- camouflage (1)
Watch this short video to see lots of different kinds of frogs and toads!
Here’s a fun, short video for your younger students about amphibians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0HDtRY8u4
- Read about the life cycle of a frog.
- Watch this nicely illustrated video about the life cycle of a frog.
- Frog life cycle game
See the difference between frogspawn and toad spawn
Kingdom Animalia (animals)
Phylum Chordata (animals with a notochord)
Class Amphibia (amphibians)
Order Anura (frogs and toads)
Family Many families, including Family Bufonidae (toads), Family Centrolenidae, Family Dendrobatidae (poison dart frogs), Family Discoglossidae, Family Hylidae (tree frogs, etc.), Family Hyperolidae, Family Leptodactylidae, Family Microhylidae, Family Myobatrachidae, Family Pelobatidae, Family Pipidae, Family Pseudidae, Family Ranidae (true frogs), Family Rhacophoridae, Family Rhinophrynidae.
With more than 4,000 species of frogs, there’s sure to be a few strange ones!
There are lots of different kinds of frogs. Watch the video below from the San Diego Zoo to learn about a few of them.
The last two downloads in this section can be used as mini-books to add to your notebooking pages (the small mini-books fit into the illustration boxes of the frog study pages – also below). You can also add them to a lapbook, create a wall poster to display the frogs you’re studying, cut out just the frog portion and use as flash cards, or copy two sets of flash cards and play a memory game. There are lots of different uses for them!
- Visual Frog Anatomy and Frog Dissection
- Diagram of frog digestive system
- Important frog parts of the digestive system
- Frog Skin
- Frog Feet
- Frog Eyes
- Frog Ears
- Here’s a nice comparison chart for younger students.
- Frogs vs. Toads
- This list goes into more detail – nice for older students
- Listen to some frog and toad calls
The video below is suited best for older students.
- Here’s a nice page for younger students about what frogs eat, how they get their food, who their enemies are, and how they escape from their enemies.
- What do frogs eat? What eats a frog?
- What eats a frog?
Bullfrogs hunt…anything! – Watch and see!
Poisonous Dart Frogs Fact Sheet
Poisonous Dart Frogs
- Black-legged Dart Frog
- Blue Poison Dart Frog
- Dyeing Poisonous Dart Frog
- Giant Leaf Frog
- Golden Poison Frog
- Kokoe Poison Dart Frog
- Lovely Poison Frog
- Phantasmal Poison Frog
- Red-backed Poison Frog
- Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
- Fun Hibernation Facts
- How a Frog Hibernates
- How do frogs survive the winter? Why don’t they freeze to death?
Watch the video below to see how a Wood Frog survives the winter.
- Fun Frog Facts for Kids
- Frequently asked questions by students about frogs
- Smallest Species of Frog
- Largest Species of Frog
Check out these awesome Pinterest boards with fun frog crafts for kids!
Online Activities
- Frog Coloring Pages
- Red-eyed Tree Frog online coloring
- Frog Jump Game
- Frog and Toad are Friends Board Game
Make some Kermit the Frog cupcakes!
Fictional Books:
- The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set (I Can Read Book 2)
- A Frog Prince
- A Frog in the Bog
- A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog
- Too Many Frogs
- The Princess and the Frog
- The Wide-Mouthed Frog (A Pop-Up Book)
- The Frog Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess)
Non-Fiction Books
- Nic Bishop: Frogs
- Frogs: Animal Nature Facts, Trivia and Photos! (Jungle Series – Expedition Earth)
- Frogs
- National Geographic Readers: Frogs
Educational
Books
- The Purple Frog
- The Frog Princess StoryChimes
- The Princess and the Frog – Interactive Children’s Story Book
- Frog Prince
- Finding Franking Frog
- Frog King Lite
- Ox & Frog
- Flip Flop Story
Games
Apps For Purchase
This is a great unit! I am so excited to use it with a student I do homebound for. We have adaptive baking equipment and I think the frog cupcakes will be a fun baking activity for us to do! Thanks for putting this together and sharing it with others! Hoppy spring!
Thank you for sharing. Looking for some creative, interesting ideas to incorporate into my unit on frogs.
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This is INCREDIBLE! Thanks for all your hard work. My students are going to LOVE this. Hugs to you!
WOW!! thank you so much for putting such an amazing package together for us all to enjoy!! I cant wait to get started with my boys.. Is there one button I can push to download it all or do I have to go thru and download each section individually? .. I cant wait to see what you have in the future for us to share and enjoy with our little ones:)
Thanks again:)
Thank you for such a nice comment! I’m glad you like this study! The files are separate because when I added them to my site last year I couldn’t add larger files. However I can now and will most likely create a file for one download. Thanks for making me aware of it — some things get forgotten :) Thanks also for stopping by my blog!
Thanks Amie! I’m planning to create one file for download soon. I’m glad you like and hope the study works well for you and your boys! Thanks for stopping by :)
All I have to say is WOW! I’m so excited to use this with my kids. We love notebooking and nature studies. I love your site and use most of your freebies and resources from Currclick. I’m a huge fan of yours and always look forward to what’s new! Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks- this is a wonderful resource! My day of planning just got significantly shorter. Blessings to you & yours.
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WOW! This is amazing! I cannot imagine how long this took you….well, maybe I can imagine because I tried to put together a unit on frog & toads after reading Arnold Lobel’s series by that name and it took me forever to gather materials from various sites! Now I see you had already done all the work….we will definitely be re-visiting this subject! Have you put together more of these “all inclusive” topical studies?
Yes, my daughter and I put together an American Revolutionary War unit and lapbook a few years ago. https://www.notebookingnook.com/freebie-american-revolutionary-war-unit-study-and-lapbook-2/
I have more planned for the future. Thanks for the nice feedback!
This will be so fun. Soooo looking forward to more!
This is a wonderful unit of study for April! I teach at a private school for children with emotional, mental and learning handicaps. This unit is easily adapted for use with multiple levels of ability with few modifications.
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You are very welcome! I hope your kids enjoy it :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these wonderful resources. I am so excited to share these pages with my boys! So much fun and excellent work!!
My son loves frogs and toads. We can’t wait to get started!
Thank you, Amie! I hope your son enjoys it!
AMAZING! Wow thank you SO MUCH for this! We will definitely be doing this in the spring. I appreciate all of your time and energy putting this together. THANK YOU for sharing!!
You’re very welcome, Carolyn! Thanks for the nice feedback :)
I am interested in this Frog unit study. We’ve never done notebooking and I’m not sure what to do with all the “blank” boxes. It looks like where pictures should go? We are not very good at drawing and where do I go for pictures or know exactly what needs to go in the boxes?
Hi, Amber,
I’ve been asked this question so many times… so I decided to write a post in answer to your question. If you still have questions after reading it, please let me know.
https://www.notebookingnook.com/what-can-be-added-to-the-empty-boxes-on-notebooking-pages/
I hope you enjoy notebooking! It’s changed our homeschooling experience!