🦫 North American beaver report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the North American beaver page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the north American beaver
Castor canadensis · Grades 1–2
| Length | 35 in to 3.3 ft (89 cm to 1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 35 to 60 lb (16 to 27 kg) |
| Top speed | 5 mph (8.1 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 8 to 10 years |
Read about it
Beavers have a flat tail and big orange teeth. They chew down trees to build dams. A beaver family lives in a lodge in the pond.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Yellowstone, nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia, nps.gov/articles/north-american-beaver-acadia.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Prince William Forest Park, nps.gov/prwi/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the north American beaver
Castor canadensis · Grades 3–4
| Length | 35 in to 3.3 ft (89 cm to 1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 35 to 60 lb (16 to 27 kg) |
| Top speed | 5 mph (8.1 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 8 to 10 years |
Read about it
A beaver's orange front teeth never stop growing, and chewing wood keeps them short. It piles sticks and mud across a stream to make a dam, and the water behind the dam becomes a pond. In the pond the family builds a lodge, a dome of sticks with a door that opens underwater.
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
- National Park Service, Yellowstone, nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia, nps.gov/articles/north-american-beaver-acadia.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Prince William Forest Park, nps.gov/prwi/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the north American beaver
Castor canadensis · Grades 5–6
| Length | 35 in to 3.3 ft (89 cm to 1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 35 to 60 lb (16 to 27 kg) |
| Top speed | 5 mph (8.1 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 8 to 10 years |
Read about it
Beavers are the largest rodents in North America. When a beaver slaps its flat tail on the water, it makes a loud splash that warns the rest of the family. Their ponds and wetlands become homes for fish, frogs, ducks, otters and many other animals, and they hold water through dry times. Beavers were trapped for their fur until they were nearly gone from many places, but they were protected and now live again across most of North America.
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
- National Park Service, Yellowstone, nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia, nps.gov/articles/north-american-beaver-acadia.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Prince William Forest Park, nps.gov/prwi/learn/nature/beaver.htm, checked 2026-10-30