🐸 Axolotl report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the axolotl page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum · Grades 1–2
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
The axolotl is a salamander that lives in water all its life. It has frilly gills on the sides of its head. Its wide mouth looks like a smile.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- US Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species: axolotl profile, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=3973, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum · Grades 3–4
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Most salamanders grow up and walk onto land, but an axolotl stays in the water and keeps its gills. It can regrow a lost leg or tail, and even parts of its heart and spinal cord. Wild axolotls are dark brownish-green, while pet ones can be pink, white or gold.
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: axolotl profile, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=3973, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum · Grades 5–6
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Axolotls reach full size and can lay eggs without ever changing into land animals, which is why they still look like young salamanders. Scientists study how they regrow body parts, hoping to learn how healing works. In the wild, axolotls live only in the canals near Mexico City, and they are critically endangered, because the city has grown and the water has become polluted. People are cleaning the canals and making safe places for wild axolotls to live.
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: axolotl profile, nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=3973, checked 2026-10-30