(Click on each fact to find out more.)

All About Frogs: Frogland! – Site offers a lot of information including: News, a blog, pet frog info, how to say frog in different languages, fables, and much more.

Wikipedia: Frogs – Site offers a lot of information about frogs including: Etymology and taxonomy, evolution, morphology and physiology, locomotion, life history, defence, distribution and conservation status, uses and cultural beliefs

AMNH: Exhibits: Frogs: A Chorus of Colors – American Museum of Natural History provides an online exhibit about frogs including: The Amazing Adaptable Frog, Featured Frog Species, Poison Dart Frog Vivarium, Reproduction, A Frog’s Life, Frogs and the Ecosystem, Frog Research at the Museum, Meet the Curator, Frog Sounds, Frog Fun Facts

Enchanted Learning: Frogs–Information, crafts and printables related to frogs. Some activities my require a membership to print.

Defenders of Wildlife: Frogs– Site offers basic facts about frogs including diet, population, an area map and things that threaten the frog population.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: Frogs! – This site offers a kid-friendly section with frog sounds, coloring pages and facts. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resourcesoffers a lot of information about frogs and toads.

Franklin Institute: Amphibians–Information about amphibians.

HowStuffWorks: Frogs– Answers the questions: Are All Frogs Green?, Are All Frog Feet the Same?, Where in the World Do Frogs and Other Amphibians Live?, Why Are Frogs So Cold?, Are Some Frogs Poisonous? This site also has a section about How Frogs Work.

Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog– A Story by Pear Tesler

Animals: About: Frogs and Toads– Information about frogs and toads.

Welcome Wildlife.com: All About Frogs & Toads – Article talks about the differences between frogs and toads. Also talks about what the moisture on a frog’s skin is and why they have a sticky tongue.

BBC: Frog’s tongue’ can lift three times own body weight’ – Read the results of a scientific study.

Pawnation: Frog’s Tongue Attached Differently Then Humans – Article about the attachment location of a frog’s tongue, how they push their tongue out, their contact with prey and hunting style.

All About Frogs: Frogland: Mouth– A little bit of information about how a frog uses its tongue to eat.

Daily Mail: Boing! How frogs’ legs wind up their tendons ‘like a catapult’ to let them leap high into the air – Article about a study done by Brown University to see how frogs jump.

Phys.org: Jump to it! A frog’s leaping style depends on the environment – An article about an Australian frog jumping study.

Pawnation: Are The Hind Legs or Forelegs More Important in Landing For a Frog? – Find out under what circumstances a frog depends on its hind legs and forelegs to land.

Scientific American: Sticky Business: Tree Frogs Hang Tight–But How? – Article about how frogs stick to things.

Exploratorium: Frogs: Feet – Top part of article has information about frog feet.

Fox News: Tree Frogs Use Geometry to Stick to Walls – Find out how frogs need to angle their feet so they can stick to things.

New Scientist: Friction Helps Frogs Stick to Ceiling – Article about how frogs use different methods to stick to things.

Pawnation: Frogs: What Kind Of Frog Changes Colors? –Find out what frogs change colors.

Exploratorium: Frogs: Skin – The lower part of the article on this page offers information about a frog’s skin. This page, on the same site, talks about color and camouflage.

All About Frogs: Super Skin – Find out how frogs use their skin in this short article.

Brown University: Frog Respiration – Find out how frogs use their skin to breath.

Virtual Lab: Virtual Frog Dissection – Dissect a frog virtually while the site explains what is being shown. (Site uses a combination of a real frog dissection and digital diagrams.)

Frog Life Cycle: Diagram of Frog – Tips for drawing a diagram of a frog.

Froggy: Teaching Tool: Diagrams– Site offers 4 labeled diagrams of the inside of a frog: Skeletal System, organs, digestive system, and nervous system. Click on each picture to make it larger.

Wikipedia: Frog Hearing & Communication – Find out how frogs communicate through sound and why.

All About Frogs: Songs – Scroll down a little and listen to a variety of frog sounds on the page.

Leaps: Sound Page – Each sound will need to be downloaded to be listened to.

AMNH: Frog Sounds – This page offers videos of frog sounds from 15-36 seconds long. Listen right on the site.

Franklin Institute: Frog Life Cycle – Pictures of the stages of life with an explanation right next to each picture.

Animals: About: Frogs– Offers photos and information about the life stages of frogs.

Frog Life Cycle: The Life Cycle of a Frog – Cute description of a frog’s life cycle.

Frog Garden: What do frogs eat?– Tips for feeding pet frogs and a video of 6 frogs eating 100 flies.

Frog žába Self-published work by Ervín Pospíšil

USGS: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Order Anura: Frogs and Toads – Vast list of frogs and toads. Click on the highlighted words to see and learn about each animal.

Wikipedia: List of Amphibians of the World– List includes: frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians

Pawnation: Types Of Underwater Frogs – Site offers information about frogs that live in water in their adult stage of life. The Congo Dwarf Clawed Frog, Western Dwarf Clawed Frog, African Clawed Frog, Western Clawed Frog.

FishChannel.com: Choosing an Aquatic Frog – Article offers helpful information about purchasing an aquatic frog as a pet.

Aquatic Frogs: In Depth Information on Common Aquatic Clawed Frogs – Site offers information about a variety of aquatic clawed frogs.

Earth’s Endangered Creatures: Amphibians– List of endangered amphibia
ns including frogs.

Pawnation: Frogs: Blue Poisonous Dart Frog– Information about this type of poisonous frog: Why they are poisonous, characteristics, habitat, mating habits and reproduction.

AMNH: Poison Dart Frog Vivarium – When you get to the site, look to the left and you will see a variety of poisonous frog information.

Many frog fables do not end well for the frog!

Frog Life Cycle: Kiss A Frog & Other Frog Myths – Offers some history about frog myths and beliefs and where they came from.

Wikihow: Make an Origami Jumping Frogs from an Index Card: Offers Moving-image instructions.

• Start a frog book (ebook or physical book), a blog post or site with the information you gather and find interesting.

• Come up with your own questions about frogs and/or add to the ones in this resource.

• See if you can find frogs in the yard or the places you go. Consider journaling, taking pictures or drawing the things you see.

• If you look in ponds, streams, rivers, deep puddles, containers of water, or unkept pools, to see if you can find frogs at different stages of life: eggs, tadpoles and adult frogs.

• Raise a frog of your own.

• Find out what cultures eat frogs or use them for other things.

• Make your own frog information cards. Frogs-Pictures offers some pictures you can print and use for this activity.

• Make up your own frog jokes!

• If you see a frog at any stage of life, draw it, and the surrounding area.

• Go outside and listen to a variety of frog sounds. See what you can identify. Use the resources in “sound and communication” above to help identify what you are listening for.

• Count the frogs you see and report them to Frog USA.

• Find out what happens when an invasive species of frog comes into a region.

• Find out what you can about endangered frogs.

• Find out what frogs are already extinct and how it happened.

• Found out what you can do to help the frog population.

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