Description

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Meet these extraordinary living fossils --the amphibians Explore their complicated life cycle with an engaging set of activities. ScienceWiz Online Discovery Frogs, Toads and Amphibians includes hands-on projects and an access code to a web-based book. This new type of book combines online storytelling with 3-D manipulations, interactive explorations and sing-along songs. It includes an extraordinary collection of embedded videos: outrageous, endearing, informative. Watch a time-lapse video of metamorphosis. Frogs are incredible shape-shifters. They start as water-breathing swimmers -- tadpoles. They transform into air-breathing adults. With these transformations, amphibians became the first vertebrates to walk on land

About the Author

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Text/LinkEditor: Ann Einstein, M.A.T. from George Washington University in Washington D.C., was a teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District. She has been involved with the education of children for most of her adult career as a director of early childhood education programs, as a teacher in gifted and talented programs and most recently as an elementary education teacher. She has been an editor of the ScienceWiz(TM) Books since 1994 when she edited the ElectroWiz(TM) Electricity book. Ann brings a clarity of mind and the capacity to see things through a child's eyes to the editing process. To quote an Einstein of an earlier generation: "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein