🐸 Printable Life Cycle of a Frog Mini-Book

Are you looking for an alternative to a textbook when teaching about life cycles? This life cycle of a frog mini-book is the perfect addition to your science lessons and will give your students the information they need! This mini-book includes 8 pages of information, graphic organizers, and comprehension checks. Students will learn about each stage of a frog’s life cycle:

• frogspawn
• tadpole
• froglet
• adult frog

Students will also compare and contrast different stages of the frog life cycle as well as draw a diagram of the different stages.

The book has been designed as a printable mini-book for you to print either single sided or  front-to-back, cut in half, and assembled into a half-size booklet.

Through this activity, students will investigate how a frog undergoes a series of orderly changes in its life cycles.

Guide Your Students to Discover the Development Stages of a Frog

In addition to individual student work time, use this life cycle mini-book to enhance learning through guided science groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need support understanding the concepts by completing the book in a 1-on-1 setting or in a small group. Additionally, provide access to previous assignments, as well as posters and anchor charts for students to recall past lessons.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

For students that need a bit of a challenge, encourage them to create a poster showing the life cycle of a frog.

Plan lessons for all ability levels with our 10 Best Scaffolding Strategies! 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or editable Google Slides version of this resource. 

Each page has two identical copies to make page assembly a bit easier for you and your students!

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Life Cycle of a Frog - Poster

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