I.

OBJECTIVE
At the end of the 60 minutes lesson, the learners will be able Grade 4: Science
to: The Life Cycle of a Frog
 Describe the Physical feature of a frog
 Identify the stages of the Life Cycle of a Frog
 Labelled the sequence of stages of Life Cycle of a Frog

II. CONTENT The Life Cycle

A. The Life cycle of the Frog
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References
1. Learner’s Material Pages pp. 132-145
2. Textbook Pages pp. 384-416
B. Methods Lecture-Demonstration
IV. PROCEDURES
A. BEFORE LESSON

Review

Good morning, class! Good morning, ma’am!

Now go to chair and arrange your things.
Remain standing as we are going to start the prayer,
Raffy please lead the prayer. Yes ma’am.
(Done praying)
Class, take your sit.

How are you? We are fine, thank you how are you too?
I am fine too. Yes ma’am!
Have you ate your breakfast? Ma’am I had an egg.
What’s on your breakfast? Hmmm, rice.
What else? And? And Milk
Yes ma’am. My mom prepared a sari-saring gulay for our
What about vegetables? breakfast.
Very good! Class, do not skip your breakfast okay?
Eating your breakfast with healthy food like rice, Yes ma’am!
vegetables, egg and milk. Right? Yes ma’am! Everyone is here.
So, is everyone here? Check your sit mate.
Very good!

So sit down arrange your chair, and always remember Parts of the Plant.
to clean your surroundings.
No, teacher!
Let’s check your attendance.
(Checking of attendance) Yes ma’am.

Last time we discussed about what?

Is there any question about our past lesson?

 Okay, class now I want you to answer this short quiz
about our topic, Parts of the Plant that we have
discussed last time.

Read the direction provided.

DIRECTION: Write the number from (1 to 5) to indicate the

correct order of the growth of a Plant on the space provided.

B. MOTIVATION
Class, have you ever seen a Frog? Yes ma’am!
What does it looks like? It is green and it has legs!
Does it have an eyes? Yes ma’am!
Did you know that a frog is an amphibian? Meaning, they need Yes ma’am!
water or moist environment to survive.
Very good!
Did you that the life cycle of a frog start from eggs? No ma’am! Yes ma’am!

Have you tried to play with it? Yes ma’am!

Those who have touch a frog, what is the texture of its skin? Ma’am, it is moist and slimy!
Very good!

A Frog looks like this right?(show them the picture)

Yes ma’am!
For today’s lesson, we are going to discuss about the Life Cycle
of a Frog. Meaning how the frog grow. After the lesson, we
going to try out some fun activities to test out what we learned!

Are you ready?

So, you better listen carefully, for you to understand our lesson Yes ma’am!
so that you can answer the activities I will give later after our
discussion. Understand?

We will start our lesson by watching this video produced by Yes ma’am.
Peekaboo Kidz.

As we watch the video, you have to listen and take notes, okay?
So, prepare your Science notebook and your pen. Write
important information as I am going to check your notes later.
Understand? Yes, ma’am.

(Done watching)
Did you take notes of some important information about the
video you watch?
Very good!
Yes ma’am.
So, what is the video all about? Go ahead Abdullah.
Very good!
Anything else? Rasheda? Ma’am, the video we watch is about frog!
Very good!
Ma’am the video talks about how frog grow.

C. PRESENTATION OF THE LESSON

Now we are going to discuss the Frog Life Cycle.

(Start the lecture on Life Cycle of a Frog)

A life cycle refers to the stages or changes that an animal goes

through while it’s alive. A life cycle repeats itself, or goes in a
circle, for each new generation of life. A frog goes through five
stages of life. In each stage, it changes and grows.
Metamorphosis is another word for the changes an animal
makes during its life cycle. During a frog’s metamorphosis, an
egg will hatch into a tadpole, which will then develop back legs
first, then front legs, and become a full grown adult frog!

D. DISCUSSING THE NEW CONCEPT

Now, there are Five Stages of Life a Frog has.
Stage 1: Egg

Figure 1. Wood Frog with a mass of Fertilized eggs

Frogs lay fertilized eggs. That’s where new frogs come from. A
female frog can lay up to 4,000 eggs at a time! The eggs float
on water in a jelly mass or cluster. The eggs hatch in one to
three weeks into tadpoles!

Stage 2: Tadpole
Then a tadpole hatches from an egg. When the tadpole hatches,
it looks more like a fish than a frog. A tadpole lives in water. It
uses gills to breathe and it has no legs. The tadpole swims, eats
plants and algae from the water, and grows for several weeks.

Stage 3: Froglet

A tadpole with legs is considered a froglet.

During this time, the tadpole starts to develop lungs so it will be
able to breathe out of the water when it becomes a frog. The
tadpole also starts to grow two hind legs. At this point, the
tadpole can now be considered a froglet. The froglet can leap
around instead of only swim. Although the froglet is starting to
look a little more like a frog, it still has a very long tail!

Stage 4: Young Frog

The froglet grows two front legs and its long tail becomes
shorter and shorter. The tadpole uses the nutrients stored in its
tail as food, so until its tail is completely gone, it doesn’t need
anything else to eat! Then just a little stub of its tail is left, and
the froglet is a young frog. It hops right out of the water and
onto dry land for the first time! The frog is still very small.

Stage 5: Adult Frog

The frog’s tail will eventually disappear completely and it will
start to eat insects instead of plants from the water. The young
frog will grow for about 2-4 years to become an adult. The adult
frogs then lay their eggs and more tadpoles hatch and begin the
cycle again!

E. ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY
Direction: Label the Stages of the Life Cycle of a Frog. Write the
answer on the space provided.

F. EVALUATION
Class, I told you to bring your own scissors and glue, right? Yes ma’am.
Because today, you are going to do a fun activity where you will
be in need of scissors and glue.

Now, prepare your scissors and glue. I will distribute the

worksheet. Read and understand carefully the direction.
Always remember to be very careful in using your scissors.
Make it clean and neat! Do you understand? Yes ma’am!
Very good! Now you can start performing the activity.
Direction: By the use of scissors and glue, try to match the
life cycle stage to its correct position in a frog’s life cycle.
The pictures to be cut is below the worksheet.

(Done Answering)
Yes ma’am!

Yes ma’am!

Class, are you done?

Wonderful!

Pass your answer sheet. Clean your desk and keep your scissors
and glue.

Okay class, sit down properly, and we are going to answer the
worksheet on the board.

So here, as you can see, I have the cut pictures of the Stages of
Life Cycle of a Frog. Now, I need five students to fill in the Life
Cycle diagram in the board. Who wants to volunteer? Okay,
Rapia, Rahema, Rasheda, Najirah and Mohammad Hisham.

(Performing the activity)

 G. GENERALIZATION
Class, let us review what we have learned today.
(Reviewing)
Fun facts about the frog.

Frogs are amphibians, which means that they can live in water
or on land. They go through several stages of life before they
become adult frogs and during those stages, they live only in
water.

Frogs and toads are carnivores or insectivores, which means

that they will eat meat or living insects. Small to medium sized
frogs eat insects such as flies, mosquitoes, moths and
dragonflies. Larger frogs will eat larger insects like grasshoppers
and worms. Some large frogs will even eat small snakes, mice,
baby turtles, and even other smaller frogs!

There are over 5,000 species of frogs!

Frogs don’t need to drink water because they absorb it through

their skin.

H. ASSIGNMENT

Alright class. Did you understand our lesson today? Yes ma’am!
Very good! So answer the assignment, at home and you are
going to pass it tomorrow. Okay? Yes ma’am.

Goodbye class? See you tomorrow. Goodbye ma’am! See you tomorrow!

PREPARED BY:

RONDATO, MONALIZA A. Educ 197-b