Frog's Life Indeed

This was a very exciting article to read because it displayed how a teacher used a teachable moment to the best of her advantage. By allowing the students to inquire, observe, and retain the... See More

This was a very exciting article to read because it displayed how a teacher used a teachable moment to the best of her advantage. By allowing the students to inquire, observe, and retain the information learned, this was a lesson that the students were not going to forget anytime soon. I especially loved how the teacher incorporated frogs into other everyday activities such as math lessons, art projects, and reading time.

Wonderful Teachable Moment

This article was a refreshing view of the importance for tangible, real life connections to science concepts for children, especially young children. This article showed how much there is t... See More

This article was a refreshing view of the importance for tangible, real life connections to science concepts for children, especially young children. This article showed how much there is to learn about one topic, the life cycle of a frog, and how this single science concept can be crossed to different content areas. Students learned from books, wrote and drew for observations, created sculptures of frogs, built an outdoor habitat and even an indoor habitat, and worked on math skills such as estimation. I thought that the activities, which included a field trip and eventually creating a permanent pond habitat, were well researched an implemented, and the assessments administered (picture cards) were appropriate and showed how much more solidified a child’s understanding of a topic can be with hands-on experience. The only thing I would have added to this project, since it took place over a long period of time, would be to demonstrate the life cycle throughout the plant/animal kingdom, so students understand that every organism goes through changes.