🦞 American lobster report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the American lobster page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the american lobster
Homarus americanus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 35 in (90 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 44 lb (20 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 100 years |
Read about it
The American lobster lives on the bottom of the cold sea. It has a hard shell and two big claws. One claw crushes and one cuts.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- US Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species fact sheet, American lobster, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1087, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/american-lobster, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the american lobster
Homarus americanus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 35 in (90 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 44 lb (20 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 100 years |
Read about it
A lobster's hard shell does not stretch, so to grow, it climbs out of its old shell and makes a new, bigger one. Until the new shell hardens, the lobster hides among rocks because it is soft. Its two claws are not the same: one is a heavy crusher, and one is a slim cutter.
Where it lives (its habitat):
What it eats:
How its body helps it live there:
My favorite fact:
A question I still have:
Where my facts came from
- US Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species fact sheet, American lobster, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1087, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/american-lobster, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the american lobster
Homarus americanus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 35 in (90 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 44 lb (20 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 100 years |
Read about it
American lobsters are crustaceans, cousins of crabs and shrimp. They live in dens among rocks and come out at night to look for food, tasting and smelling the water with tiny hairs on their feelers and legs. Most lobsters are greenish-brown, but a few are born bright blue. Fishers catch lobsters in traps, and rules tell them to put back lobsters that are too small and any mother carrying eggs, so there will always be more lobsters.
Habitat and range: where on Earth, and what the place is like:
Diet: what it eats, and what might eat it:
Adaptations: two ways its body or habits help it survive:
Is it in danger? Why or why not?:
Compare it with another animal you know:
Bibliography: write each source below as site, page title, date checked:
Where my facts came from
- US Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species fact sheet, American lobster, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1087, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/american-lobster, checked 2026-10-30