Adaptations
Frogs have different feet that are adapted to match
their lifestyles.
• Some have webbed toes for swimming or
gliding.
• Others have hard footpads for digging.
• Tree frogs have sticky toe pads for climbing.
On the Move: Push buttons to activate video clips of
frogs jumping, swimming, walking, climbing and gliding.
Life Cycle
Like most fish, amphibians release their eggs
into the water, where they are fertilized.
Nests and Nurseries: How do some frogs protect their
eggs and tadpoles?
4. Observations: Find one of the following frogs in its habitat and circle which
one:
African Bullfrog • Chinese Gliding Frog • Borneo Eared Frog
Draw and label your frog.
7. Observations: Find the tadpole habitat. Can you see the tadpoles? Draw
and label a tadpole.
5. Claim: How do you think this frog moves: climbs, jumps, swims or glides?
8. Claim: Do you think that a tadpole is more like a fish or an adult frog?
6. Evidence: What observations make you think it moves in this way?
9. Evidence: What observation supports your claim?
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Predator
Prey
Catching Food: Push buttons to activate the video
clips of frogs eating.
What is a
Frog?
Frogs, salamanders and caecilians are modern
amphibians, vertebrate animals that live part time in
water and part time on land.
2. What are some characteristics of most frogs? (What is the essence of
frogginess?) Hint: Read some of the panels about frogs.
10. Observations: What special parts did you observe in the video that helps
frogs to eat?
11. Find the habitat for the Long Nosed Horned Frog. Can you
see the frog?
3. Frog or Toad?: Try to guess the differences between
frogs and toads. Write characteristics that are the same and
different.
What is special about how this frog hunts its prey?
Frog:
Toad:
12. Find the habitat for the Smokey Jungle Frog. Can you see
the frog?
This frog often ends up on the dinner plate of which predator?
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Why frogs ?
Why a whole exhibition about frogs? Are they
really that important?
Vanishing
Chorus
“Frogs do for the night what birds do for the day…”
Archie Carr
Before your visit:
Why do you think frogs might be important?
Create a Chorus: Push buttons to activate recorded
frog calls. Overlap them to make a chorus.
13. How does a frog make sounds?
During your visit: Expedition Earth
1. Write at least 3 ways that frogs are valuable to people and the environment:
14. Why are the numbers of frogs decreasing?
15. What can we do about it?
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Freaky
Frogs
With more than 5,400 different species of
frogs living in habitats from tropical forests
to the arctic tundra, some of them are sure
to have unusual characteristics.
16. Freaky Frog: Find a frog that you think is really freaky.
Name: _________________________________________
Class: _________________________________________
Naturalist’s Notebook
Name of frog: ______________________
What makes your frog especially freaky?
If you could name this frog, what would you call this frog?
What more would you like to know about this frog?
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
A Special Exhibition
10/16/2015-1/10/2016
Explore More:
Meet Acanthostega and Eryops in the Expedition Earth
exhibition on the RMSC 1st Floor.
Welcome! Today, you will become herpetologists
(HER-pah-tol-lah-jists), experts on amphibians and
reptiles. Use this notebook to record you findings as
you explore Frogs: A Chorus of Colors.
Key:
Acanthostega gunnari
370 million years ago
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Eryops megacephalus
295 million years ago
Hands-on exhibit component