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Frog's Big Change
Life cycles: put the stages in order, from egg to frog and egg to butterfly · ages 4-7
1. Warm-up, 5 minutes
Grow like a frog: curl up small (an egg), wriggle (a tadpole), kick out your back legs, then your front legs, then jump!
2. The game, on the projector
Show the mixed-up pictures on the board. Children call out what comes first, and a helper drags it into place. Then step through "Watch it grow" together and check.
Projector mode is the game with ?projector on the end of its address. It's big and landscape, a win waits for you to press Next, and nothing is saved on the computer: no progress, no animal cards, no login.
3. Away from the screen
The Frog's Big Change sheet: cut out the pictures and glue them round the circle in order.
Questions to ask
- What does a tadpole grow first, its back legs or its front legs?
- Where does a butterfly lay her eggs?
- Can you think of something else that changes as it grows? (You did!)
Curriculum
- AC9EFLE03: recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
- AC9EFLE05: retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
- AC9EFLY05: use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
- AC9S1U01: identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs
- AC9S3U01: compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
- AC9SFU01: observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features
More detail, and every word it says: the page for grown-ups.