Metamorphosis (meta-morf-o-sis) Body Changing
Tobias: I’m feeling really odd ……..
Tobias: I’ve got lumps forming on my tummy, I think I must be very ill.
Am I dying?
Tobias: Oh my tail, they are not lumps they are legs! Re
al legs …… legs
with feet!
Can you see my little legs?
I seem to be growing more legs at the front and I’m sure my tail is getting thinner. I’m also getting urges to climb out of my pond
Look at me now. I have finished my metamorphosis. I’ve got 4 legs. Most of my tail has gone. I am not a tadpole anymore, I am a frog.
I’m so different now, I live on land. I no longer eat pond weed and I can hop huge distances. I can hop 5 times my body length. How tall are you? How far could you hop if you had legs like mine? Try this
Drawings by B kimmel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Make a mark on the ground
Lie on the ground with your feet on the mark and your legs folded up.
Make a mark where your head is on the ground
Put your feet on the new mark, lie down and mark the new place for your head.
Do this another three times (five altogether).
The distance from where your feet started and your head finished is how far you could jump with frog legs!
