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It's not the big plans but the simple little steps that we take in our efforts for conservation and helping the frogs. A big thank you to Cicada Tree Eco-place, Dr Rozario and Uncle Andrew for the support and opportunities presented to us, without which this project would never have been a success.



Our efforts at environmental conservation do not stop today: we will always be ready to be there for our frog friends. Whilst time constraints might prevent us from preparing more materials for our lesson package, what we already have can serve as the foundation for further development in this area.

Loving Frogs, Saving Frogs.

Thank you to all who have made this project such a success!
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Frog Project
Advocating for Frogs

To celebrate the International Year of the Frog in 2008, a group of 5 students from Raffles Institution collaborated with Cicada Tree Eco-Place to advocate for frogs. They value-added to our M.A.D. for Frogs lesson by performing a puppet show for the kids.

With the help of hand-made paper puppets, the boys told a fairy tale of an irresponsible prince who kept throwing rubbish into a pond, until a witch turned him into a frog, and having to live in that same pond, he realized how dirty it was, and begged the witch for forgiveness. The witch finally relented and the ‘frog-prince’ turned back to his normal prince-ly self. But this time, he practiced eco-actions and sustainable living, creating a pond of clean rain and stream water with lots of freshwater plants. The pond became a happy home for frogs, fish, dragon and damselflies, and other insects, and many animals came to drink from its water.

The kids loved the puppet show and were curious about the stage props.

Thanks, guys, for a super job done! We’re one step closer to the conservation of clean water habitats and our native frog species.

[Source: http://www.cicadatree.org.sg/eagleeye_frog.html]

We'd like to take the opportunity of reaching out to those who read our blog to help support our VWO, Cicada Tree Eco-place by accessing their website at http://www.cicadatree.org.sg/ Superficial as it might sound but a simple action of creating awareness for yourself really helps in the long run in raising awareness for the plight of the frogs. We do hope that everyone will take an active stand towards environmental conservation!
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For the purpose of the various presentations we have put up with regards to our project, and in conjunction with our bid to build different puppets to cater different needs, we have come up with several templates and designs for making puppets related to frogs.

The above would be an example of a recent puppet design we have come up with: the requirement was for us to build a puppet for a staged 2 metres in length, and hence in order to accommodate to this request we had to enlarge our original design for our frog puppet, and added in our own unique design for the body.
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The above would be the template that can be utilised for the making of our very own original frog design. Made using simple basic shapes, tt is easy to print, cut and colour, and after that, to attach on to a folded paper plate or any circular substitute.



This is an example of a completed frog with one of the children we worked with (for the privacy of the child, we have cropped out his face). It is a reflection of the child's efforts in developing an affinity for his friend from nature, and in turn become one who will love the environment and make an effort to save it!
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Another major aspect of our lesson package was the literature aspect: namely our puppet show (which we constructed a stage for), and our puppet making lessons. Below is the script for our puppet show.

Characters:

- Prince John
- 3 puppet frogs
- Witch
- Prince John the Frog


The play begins with a backdrop showing a grand castle on the right with a pond located nearby on the left.

Narrator: Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there lived a prince named John.

(Puppet John moves in from stage right)

Narrator: Prince John lived in the castle here on the right.

(PJ moves to the castle)

Narrator: In the pond on the left lived the frogs.

(3 puppet frogs move in from stage right to the pond)

Narrator: Now, Prince John was not a nice person.

(PJ chases 1 puppet frog from stage left to right)

PJ: Haha! You can’t get away from me, little frog!

(PJ hits puppet frog into pond, puppet frog squeals)

(PJ throws rubbish into the pond. *Splat* PJ then walks back to castle)

Narrator: (addressing audience) Do you think PJ is a nice person?

(waits for response)

Narrator: Do you think that throwing rubbish into the pond is correct?

(waits for response)

Narrator: Prince John threw even more rubbish into the pond. (More rubbish keeps being thrown.) One day, a witch came to visit Prince John.

(Puppet witch appears from stage centre and moves stage left towards PJ)

Witch: Prince John, do you know what you have done?

PJ: No, and I don’t care.

Witch: (shaking head) I shall have to teach you a lesson.
(Witch waves around)

PJ: Nooooo…

(PJ pops down and PJF pops up in place)

Witch: You will stay as a frog and live in the pond for the rest of your life.

(Witch pops down with evil laughter)

Narrator: And so Prince John had to live in the pond with the other frogs.

(PJF moves from stage left to right towards pond)

The scene changes to a backdrop with sickly green water and the fish look ill. The plants in the water are withered and pieces of rubbish are floating about. PJF and three other frogs are standing in the stage centre.)

PJF: (Coughing) What happened to the pond? Why is it so dirty?

PF1: Don’t you know? All the rubbish you threw into the pond has made it dirty.

PJF: But-

PF2: Now the fish and frogs in the pond are dying because of the dirty water.

PJF: I’m… I am sorry.

Narrator: By now, Prince John the Frog was sorry for bullying the frogs and not taking care of the pond. So he went to see the witch.

(The scene changes back to the castle and pond. The witch and PJF appear in the centre stage.)

PJF: Dear Mrs. Witch, could you change me back into a human? I promise I will change my ways.

Witch: Well, okay, so long as you promise to help clean up the pond.

(Witch waves her wand, and PJF pops back down. PJ pops back up in the stage centre.)

PJ: Thank you!

Narrator: From then on, Prince John did his best to keep the pond clean. He stopped throwing rubbish into the pond, and the frogs were happy once again.

(PJ . The three puppet frogs are hopping around in the pond area.)

Frogs: Now that there is no more rubbish, the pond is clean again! Yay!

PJ and Narrator: Let’s sing a song!

(Wait for response.

Frogs start hopping in stage centre as song begins)

Together:

Throw your rubbish in the bin,
Keep your ponds and rivers clean,
Croak! Croak! Croak! Croak!
Let’s all be so clean and green!

THE END

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Our song sheet is aimed at the aural aspect of learning for children. Through our research, we learnt that songs are an effective means of learning because it is able to sustain the attention of children and because it is an easy means of allowing children to remember the message we are trying to bring across to them through our easy lyrics.

With a simple tune and catchy 3rd line, we managed to sustain the interest of the children during our implementation at Kinderland Woodlands Hub, and the children were especially excited when it came to the 3rd line of the song (Croak, croak, croak, croak!).
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Welcome to our RES-L blog! In this blog we will upload the lesson package we have prepared for the utilization of children. We aim for our lesson package to be sustainable and reusable, hence this online portal for sharing of materials that can be used for an effective lesson to teach children about the importance of environmental conservation.

We eventually hope that this blog will become a sharing platform for fellow frog-loving members of the community to share about their endeavours into helping these lovable creatures, and introduce their own ideas and solutions to imparting and inculcating the right message of saving frogs to our target audience: the young children.

With the advent of technology, we decided that an online medium would be the most effective form of sharing due to its universal accessibility.

We hope this will be a successful means of saving the frogs that we all love and need in our lives!
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hello :D our names are daron, aaron, darren, stephen and wenghong, and we know it's a mouthful we are currently studying in raffles institution and are secondary 4 students