A Frogs Lapbook for Elementary Students

After completing this Frog Lapbook learning folder, your elementary students will have learned about a frog’s life cycle, anatomy, habitat, defenses, and much more.

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This learning folder includes eleven different activity booklets for your student to complete, plus language arts and hands-on learning activities which will take around 4 or 5 school days to complete.

Your students will complete language arts activities, hands-on activities, and learning booklets with this Frogs Lapbook while they learn what frogs eat, where they live, how they grow, and much more!

Also included are two writing prompts for creative writing practice.

Here are the resources used in the Frogs Lapbook:

Just for your youngest kiddos: Nat Geo Little Kids First Board Book: Frogs by Ruth Musgrave

Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel (This is book 1 of 4; all kids love this series!)

The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker (This is book 1 of 9 and your girls will love the whole series!)

(Let’s Read and Find Out) Why Frogs Are Wet by Judy Hawes

Frogs by Gail Gibbons OR All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky

For your older kids: The Nature of Frogs: Amphibians with Attitude by Harry Parson If you can’t find this book, just use one of these sites: FrogsnToads or Learn About Nature

Video: From Tadpoles to Frogs

Frog Lapbook Activities

Language Arts Activities

Literature Reading – Based on your student’s abilities, either read aloud Frog and Toad  or The Frog Princess or have your student read them to you.

Writing Prompt– Complete one or both of the writing prompts: “A Froggy Friendship Story” or “A Frog Pond Story”

Use the non-fiction books about frogs and the online sites to help you fill in the lapbook booklets.

1. Frog vocabulary – In the tabbed book, write the vocabulary words on the outside of the tabs.  Lift the flaps and write the definitions.   

• gills
• webbed
• metamorphosis
• amphibian
• vertebrate
• secretion
• gland
• camouflage

2. Life cycle of a frog – Complete the wheel book by drawing what the frog looks like in the different stages of the frog’s life cycle (or use the optional clip art instead to glue them in the correct order).

3. Frog’s anatomy – Using the word bank, label the frog’s external parts.

4. Scientific classification – What is the classification of a frog? Describe why they fit into this class?

5. Frog’s habitat – What kind of habitats can you find frogs? Do they all live in water?

6. Diet of a frog – What does the frog eat?

7. A frog’s predators – List the predators and hazards of the frog.

8. Frog defenses – How does the frog keep itself safe? What are its special defenses?

9. Species of frogs – Use the baseball style cards to write about 5 of the different species of frogs. Did you know there are over 5500 different kinds of frogs in the world?!

10. Frogs vs. toads – Complete the compare and contrast booklet to show the differences and similarities of frogs and toads. (You may also want to use the Frogs Notebooking Pages: Differences between Frogs and Toads)

11. How to Care for a Pet Frog– Complete the mini-book by telling how to care for pet frogs (and what they need).

Frogs Hands-on Activities

If possible, find some frogs in the wild or at a zoo or nature center.  If you are unable to visit frogs in person, watch some videos of frogs (check the Frog Notebooking Post for some vetted suggestions).

If you have access to a pond or a lake, go in the spring or summer on a nature hunt for tadpoles. Take a small fish net along and look along the shallow edges for either frog eggs or tiny tadpoles.  Have your student draw a picture of the what they find in a notebook.

If regulations allow, bring the tadpoles home along with some of the pond water and watch them grow in an aquarium. Be sure to release the adult frogs back where you first caught the tadpoles!

If you are into yoga, your kids will like this Frog life cycle through movement and books activity from Kids Yoga Stories.

Just for Fun

Watch one of my favorite short movies when I was young, Rupert and the Frog Song, starring Paul McCartney

Complete the Frog Dissection Kit Anatomy by National Geographic

Explore the Life Cycle and Frog Anatomy Model

Get Your Frogs Lapbook

Your kids can read some classic children’s books about amphibians and then learn about frogs with the twelve mini-books and activities in this frogs nature study with lapbook printables.

Related Pages:
Frog Notebooking Page
Frog Life Cycle Worksheet