🐋 Blue whale report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the blue whale page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 165 tons (150 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 20 mph (32 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
The blue whale is the biggest animal ever. It is bigger than any dinosaur. It eats tiny shrimp-like animals called krill.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/blue-whale, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 165 tons (150 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 20 mph (32 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
Blue whales have no teeth. Instead they have baleen, rows of bristly plates that work like a sieve: the whale gulps a huge mouthful of sea water and krill, pushes the water out, and keeps the krill. It breathes air through two blowholes on top of its head.
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
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/blue-whale, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 165 tons (150 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 20 mph (32 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
Even though it is the largest animal on Earth, the blue whale eats some of the smallest: krill. In the feeding season it eats an enormous amount, then lives off its stored fat on long journeys. Blue whales call to each other with deep, loud sounds that travel a long way through the ocean. Whaling once made them very rare; since it stopped, they have slowly started to come back.
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
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/blue-whale, checked 2026-10-30