Frogwatch
by the Scientist, age 9
What is Frogwatch? Frogwatch is a program that involves kids in citizen science. Citizen science is when people watch animals and report what they find to scientists. The number of frogs is steadily declining and since frogs are vital clues to other environmental problems it is very important that we understand this decline. Frogs are amphibians like salamanders and newts.
Frogwatchers spend three minutes each day they go frogwatching, listening to frog calls. Then they record the information they found on the information sheet and send it into frogwatch. Of course you can listen to frogs as long as you want, but three minutes is all you need to record. We might try this and I hope you will too.
