Hello students!

You are about to embark on a strange and fascinating journey investigating a problem involving frogs and their environment. Be sure that you take the time to read your prompts and directions. Investigate all the websites that are available to help you make workable decisions. These sites were chosen because they have very useful information to help you make decisions. Hopefully, at the end of your adventure, you will have solved one of the dilemmas that you have come across. Before you begin this adventure, make sure you have a pen or pencil and a notebook.

Sylvia Frogsblatter is a herpetologist who has made a startling discovery in the past year. While collecting frog specimens and counting their populations, she noticed that some species had become rare while others disappeared altogether! Not only that; some of the frogs she found had extra limbs, missing eyes and other malformations!! Your job, is to help Sylvia discover the cause of these frog problems and find a possible solution.

Frog with missing eye.		Missing legs.

Before you begin helping Sylvia with her investigation, you need to check out some of the sites below and do a little research. Go HERE to print out a form to help you keep track of each site you have visited and write a brief summary of what information is at that site. You'll need a seperate sheet for each of the four sites below. These sheets will be used several times throughout your investigation and will be counted as part of your grade so be sure to save them!

As you do research for this adventure, each link you click on will open a new web browser window. When you finish looking at that site, click to close the box to return to this page.

MINNESOTA FROG STUDY	SILENT SPRING Yosemite, Ca.
WISCONSIN'S FROG PROBLEM	FROG POPULATIONS (DAPTF)

Frog with extra limbs.

This is where you have to make your first choice. Your dilemma is that you have to decide if you are going to help Sylvia conduct an investigation in California, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. After looking at the above sites, you should be able to make a choice below. BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE PRINTED OUT ALL DATA SHEETS UP TO THIS POINT!!