There we found a whole bunch of tadpoles in pools of water around the Falls. Since I was teaching a Joy School lesson on frogs I thought it would be fun to actually show the boys some tadpoles and conduct an experiment to see if we could actually grow a frog. The boys wouldn't see the end result because school would be over, but I thought my kids would enjoy watching the transformation. The water bottle became the tadpoles transportation for their upcoming journey.
And so the experiment began. Unfortunately there were several that didn't make it, but we had 9 survive in all. They looked like fish for a good 2 weeks. It wasn't until the 3rd week that we actually saw dramatic changes.
First came the back legs and then the front and slowly they lost their tails as we saw them transform into a frog.
The end result: We ended up with four frogs and five tadpoles. We couldn't keep them long once they became frogs because they started to climb up the bowl.
It was time to take them to their new home, THE POND.
A sad goodbye.
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