🦋 Common green darner report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the common green darner page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the common green darner
Anax junius · Grades 1–2
| Length | 3 in (7.6 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | 37 mph (60 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
The green darner is a big dragonfly with a green body. It has four clear wings and huge eyes. It zooms over ponds, catching mosquitoes.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area, nps.gov/miss/learn/nature/greendarner.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Species Spotlight: Dragonflies, nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-dragonflies.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the common green darner
Anax junius · Grades 3–4
| Length | 3 in (7.6 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | 37 mph (60 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
A dragonfly has huge eyes that wrap around its head, so it can see almost all around. It can fly forward, hover and even backward, moving each of its four wings on its own. Baby darners, called nymphs, live underwater and hunt tiny water animals until they climb a plant stem and crawl out of their old skin with wings.
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, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area, nps.gov/miss/learn/nature/greendarner.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Species Spotlight: Dragonflies, nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-dragonflies.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the common green darner
Anax junius · Grades 5–6
| Length | 3 in (7.6 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | 37 mph (60 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Green darners are among the few dragonflies that make long migrations. In fall many fly south to warmer places, and their young fly back north in spring. Scientists have followed them with tiny radio tags to learn where they go. Darners need clean ponds and wetlands, where their nymphs can grow up safely.
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, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area, nps.gov/miss/learn/nature/greendarner.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Species Spotlight: Dragonflies, nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-dragonflies.htm, checked 2026-10-30