All About Frogs

National Geographic.com

• This web site is a reference tool used by all teachers and students. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature6/index.html
• Copyright 2001 National Geographic Society. All Rights Reserved
• This web site is easy to use by a teacher or a student.  The main purpose is to offer a wide variety of informations that is easy to get.
• This web site from national Geographic offers a lot about frogs, and how a high school age student can apply in class or any project needed.
• This site is very creditable, because it is linked with the popular magazine National Geographic.

Center for Global Environmental Education: A Thousand Friends of Frogs

•  This web site is an Internet resource and a content resource.
•  http://cgee.hamline.edu/frogs/students/index.htm
•     © 1999 CGEE. All Rights Reserved.
•  The main purpose of the web site is to develop a love for frogs, how to help them in your area, and create a project for the classroom.
• This web site offers a whole lot for students, teachers, or anyone who loves frogs.  First, it will give the students information on the science and anatomy of the frog, resources of other places to research frogs, what’s new on topics with frogs, plus a write up section that allows the student to place their project or their classes’ project on the web!
• The web site is linked to the Hamline Graduate School of Education, and was very easy to navigate through.  The site was last updated in 1999, but still offered current topics. The site is perfect for high school aged students, because the site deals with environmental studies that are dealt with in high school biology classrooms.
• This site is a great hands-on activity to enhance higher learning.

Computer-Enhanced Science Education: The Whole Frog Project

• This web site is an Internet project where a project is completed on the Internet.
• http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html
•     Copyright (c) 1994 by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
•  The main purpose of this web site is to teach the student a complete dissection of a frog.
• This web site is perfect for that high school student who hates the smell of formaldehyde.  This is an interactive, on-line dissection of a frog.  Instead of sitting in that smelly classroom, you are placed in front of your computer to learn.  The frog dissection is just like the real thing, including pictures, labeling muscles and tendons, and studying the habitat.
• The site was found to be very creditable.  The sources of information were from the Lawrence Berkeley national Laboratory.  It was last updated in 2001, and is very current with high school standards of frog dissection.

SCOPE:  The Decline in Amphibian Populations

• This web site is a reference tool used to research the reasons behind the declining amphibian populations.
• http://scope.educ.washington.edu/amphib/
•     Copyright 2000-2001 by the SCOPE Research Group (UC Berkeley, UW, AAAS), all rights reserved.
• The main purpose of this web site is to research a topic to discuss in class, or to create a project.
• Learn about the decline in the frog population, and join a forum discussion on reasons why, and how to solve.  This website also offers a lot for the high school student to search about the frogs so, that they can have educated forum discussions.
• This web site is very easy to navigate through, and is very current.  SCOPE is Science Controversies Online: Partners in Education.  The creditability is based on links to Berkeley, and Encyclopedia Britannica.

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Frogs

•  This web site is a lesson plan and unit resource.
• http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/frogs.shtml#middle
•     Copyright 1997-2000 A to Z Teacher Stuff, L.L.C. All Rights Reserved.
• The main purpose of this web site is to offer teachers lesson plans and units for high school science class.  Also students can find projects to complete for science class.
• This web site offers a lot to the teacher that is very fun and exciting.  A variety of lesson plans are available even for high school grades.  The best part of this website is the link to,”The Froggy Page”, which is an interactive sight with sounds, songs, and pictures of frogs.
• The creditability of this web site is that was recently updated, and is a valuable site for teachers since it offers so many lesson plans.  The index for lesson plans is huge, and covers all topics in science.

Amphibians: Why Study Them?

• The web site is a reference tool used to search the topic, and understand more about frogs.
• http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/amphy.html
• The main purpose for this web site is to help the student learn why frogs are important in studying vertebrates.
• This web site is for the curious high school student who wants to know why they have to learn this.  The website explains how studying amphibians such as frogs will give them a better understanding on the development of vertebrates.  Also, this is a college website, so the high school student will see what they will be doing in the future.
• This web site offers a lot of information about the topic, but does not include a copyright date, or date it was last updated.  The information is very strong along with the graphics, but it does not tell who wrote it.

The Frog Page: The Life Cycle of the Frog

•  This web site is a reference tool, which is used to understand frogs, and help learn more about them.  Also, the site is a webliography, which contains great links to other useful web sites.
• http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1337/info.html#egg
• The main purpose of this site is to educate the reader of the life cycle of the frog.
• What a better way to examine frogs then to know where they come from.  This website maps out the developmental stages of the frog in an easy to understand diagram with explanations.
• The creditability of this site is that a middle school student named Alex Kulesza in 1996 created it, and now that he is in high school it is used in his high school biology class.

The Minnesota New Country School Frog Project

• This web site is an Internet project developed by a high school biology class used to create your own project.
• http://www.mncs.k12.mn.us/html/projects/frog/frog.html
• The main purpose is to show the high school project to promote projects in the classroom.
• This is an actual high school project on frogs.  Read up and create your own classroom project to paste on the web!
• The creditability of this site was that it was created by these high school students, is easy to use, and was last updated in September 1999.

Exploratorium: Frogs

• This web site is a webliography that gives the student links to help explore about frogs.
• http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/index.html
•     ©1999 The Exploratorium
• The main purpose of this site is to help the student explore to find important information on frogs that they can use in their projects.
• This web site offers all that you need to know about frogs, and how you can find out more!  What they look like, where they live, how they sound, and what is happening to the frogs as we speak.  This web site also offers hands-on learning activities.
• This site is linked to Exploratorium, which is the Museum of science, art, and human perception.  It was last updated in 2000, and is very easy to navigate through, and offers a lot of different links.

The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs

•  This web site is a content resource that offers a lot of interesting facts on frogs that most will not find any where else.
• http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/commerce/account/frogs/frog.htm
• The main purpose of this site is to show the students that learning about frogs can be fun.  Also, a student can develop this information into a project for class.
• This web site tells the student amazing facts about frogs that they may not know, but will find very interesting.  A student could construct a project on this website alone!
• This web site is very fun, creative, and eye catching.  The site is easy to navigate through, and the graphics are wonderful.