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Science Y2 – Parent Guide
HATCHING FROM EGGS - OTHER CREATURES
Week 2

Truth to Teach (Source)

All baby birds hatch out of eggs.

Other creatures besides birds lay eggs.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Use pictures from Infant Projects on eggs. Comment on these.

Snakes - soft bendy shell
- female does not sit on these eggs
- everything that is needed for the young to grow in the egg.

Terrapins, crocodiles, and lizards lay eggs too.

Fish lay eggs.
Trouts’ eggs. - note the yolk sac.

2. Frogs lay eggs.
Tell the life cycle of a frog using a pop-up book on frogs:

- frogspawn is the frog's eggs.
- changes in shape of tadpoles as they grow.
- lungs inside them so that they can breathe on land.
- changes in their mouths and diets.

From simply eating plants to eating grubs and worms. (Strong jaws are necessary so too are
tongues.) These are amazing changes and happen automatically in a certain order.

3. Interestingly, a young frog does not come out of the frogspawn straight, but a tadpole
does, which then grows and changes into a frog.
God planned that creatures would give birth to the same sort of creatures.
e.g. birds do not come from frogspawn, nor do crocodiles, but tadpoles which grow into
frogs. God put order into His creation in this way.

4. Worksheet, or wheel with a space to took through and see one stage at a time in the life
cycle of a frog. Check carefully that the right size of drawings are photocopied for worksheet or
wheel. Once again, the end of being a tadpole is the beginning of being a frog.

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)

The children will have learnt that all birds, and some other creatures, hatch from eggs. They will have learnt
about the life cycle of the frog.

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