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Podcast Title: / African Dwarf Frogs
Lead Author: / Kellie Smithson & Cassie Raulston
Target Audience: / XStudents XTeachers Administrators
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Length: / 4:24
Overview
This podcast provides an overview of how to care for an African Dwarf frog. It was created by 4th grade students and is aligned with the AMSTI lesson of The Life Cycle of a Frog. Students provide an overview of how to create the habitat and care for the frog along with basic information about the frogs.
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Podcast Transcript

  1. How to take care of African Dwarf Frogs
  2. What materials do I need to build the habitat for my frog?
  3. How do I make the habitat?
  4. Use a china marker to write the names of your team members at the top of the tank. This will be the front of your habitat.
  5. Use the china marker to mark the waterline with 1 inch below the top of the tank.
  6. Add 2 cups of gravel.
  7. Slip the gravel so that one end of the gravel is higher than the other.
  8. Slowly add water to the middle of the tank until you reach the line.
  9. Poke a deep hole in the gravel with your finger. Place the trimmed bottom of the sprigs in the hole. Fill the hole with gravel and press lightly on the gravel to anchor the sprigs.
  10. Place two other sprigs in the tank.
  11. Frog Information
  12. Frogs are vertebrates. They belong to the amphibian group. Dwarf frogs are part of a group called pipids because they only live in water and are totally aquatic.
  13. They also have a tympanic membrane for hearing.
  14. African dwarf frogs prefer to eat moving organisms. They will snap at food on the surface of the water and they use their back and front feet to help with eating.
  15. Instead of our frogs eating worms and insects we give them fish flakes.
  16. The female frog is usually larger and stouter than the male.
  17. What to Do… What NOT to do!
  18. Do not touch the frogs with the spoon.
  19. Don’t touch the frog. Our hands will feel like when we rub sand paper on our skin.
  20. Don’t let their tank get too dirty.
  21. Don’t drop the tank. If you do the frog will die. This is the proper way to hold it.
  22. Don’t feed them too much- they will get too fat.

Have you ever wondered?

  • How could I use this information on African Dwarf frogs to determine their natural habitat?
  • Why is it important to understand the similarities and differences of animals (their characteristics)?
  • What is another animal within the same kingdom that you would like to research and why?