DEVELOPMENT OF TOAD'S EGGS 



(A Second-Grade Study) 



BY MARY A. DWYER 



Washington School, Passaic, N. J. 



Time: Three 15 minute periods per week, for seven weeks. 



Material: One glass dish, two inches deep, eight inches long. 

 About 35 toad's eggs. 



Method: The first period was given to making ready our 

 aquarium. Two large boys from the class were sent to a near- 

 by pond, one to get a small pail of water the other to carry some 

 pond gravel and a few large pebbles. These were placed in 

 our dish. Lifting: one 



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another, so the class 

 could see, the teacher 

 placed the eggs in 

 the dish or aquarium , 

 as we called it after 

 this. The last few 

 minutes of the period 

 were given to conver- 

 sation between teach- 

 er and pupil, about 

 the toads' eggs ; as 

 to size, color, number 

 and manner in which 

 they had been depos- 

 ited by the, "mother 

 toad." 



The second period 

 was also a conversa- 

 tion lesson about the 

 fully grown toad. Topics like the following will give some idea 

 of the work covered: How many children have ever seen a 

 toad? Where did you see him? What was he doing? How 

 large was he? Of what color? How did he move about? 



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Drawn by a second-grade pupil in Washington School, 

 Passaic, N. J. 



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