🐢 Green sea turtle report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the green sea turtle page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas · Grades 1–2
| Length | 36 in to 3.9 ft (91 cm to 1.2 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 300 to 351 lb (136 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
The green sea turtle swims in warm seas with its flippers. It eats seagrass and seaweed. Mother turtles go to a sandy beach to lay their eggs.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/green-turtle, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas · Grades 3–4
| Length | 36 in to 3.9 ft (91 cm to 1.2 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 300 to 351 lb (136 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
Green sea turtles are named for the green color of their fat, not their shell. Young turtles eat small sea animals, but grown turtles eat mostly seagrass and algae, and their grazing helps keep seagrass beds healthy. They breathe air, so they must come up to the surface, but they can rest underwater for a long time.
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/green-turtle, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas · Grades 5–6
| Length | 36 in to 3.9 ft (91 cm to 1.2 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 300 to 351 lb (136 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
Green sea turtles travel long distances between the places where they feed and the beaches where they hatched. At night, a mother crawls up the beach, digs a nest with her back flippers and covers her eggs with sand. When the hatchlings come out, they head for the brightest horizon, which is usually the sea. People protect nesting beaches, turn off bright lights near them and use fishing gear that lets turtles escape, and these efforts have helped many groups of green turtles recover.
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/green-turtle, checked 2026-10-30