Lessons & Units

The Frog Scientist 5th Grade Unit

The Frog Scientist

The Frog Scientist

Fountas and Pinnell
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Lexile
950L

Lessons

Read-Aloud Lesson The Frog Scientist, Chapter 1 Describe the steps of the experiment that scientist Tyrone Hayes is conducting to determine the effect of the pesticide atrazine on frogs.
Paired Text Questions The Frog Scientist & "Frogs at Risk" Integrate information from the non-fiction reading passage “Frogs at Risk” and the non-fiction book The Frog Scientist to write or discuss the problems facing amphibian populations around the world and their possible causes.

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