🐋 Humpback whale report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the humpback whale page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae · Grades 1–2
| Length | 46 to 49 ft (14 to 15 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 25 to 35 tons (23 to 32 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 16 mph (26 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
Humpback whales sing songs under the sea. They leap out of the water and splash back down. A baby whale is called a calf.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Kenai Fjords National Park, nps.gov/kefj/learn/nature/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, nps.gov/places/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/humpback-whale, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae · Grades 3–4
| Length | 46 to 49 ft (14 to 15 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 25 to 35 tons (23 to 32 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 16 mph (26 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
Humpbacks have no teeth. They have baleen plates that strain small food out of the water. Sometimes a group works as a team: they blow a ring of bubbles around a school of fish, then swim up through the middle with their mouths open.
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, Kenai Fjords National Park, nps.gov/kefj/learn/nature/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, nps.gov/places/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/humpback-whale, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae · Grades 5–6
| Length | 46 to 49 ft (14 to 15 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 25 to 35 tons (23 to 32 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 16 mph (26 km/h) |
| How long it lives | 80 to 90 years |
Read about it
Humpbacks make one of the longest journeys of any mammal: they feed in cold, food-rich waters in summer, then swim to warm waters where the mothers give birth, eating very little on the way. Each whale's tail has its own pattern of black and white, so scientists can tell them apart from photos. Whaling once took so many humpbacks that they became rare, but since it was stopped many groups have recovered, though ships and fishing nets are still dangers.
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, Kenai Fjords National Park, nps.gov/kefj/learn/nature/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, nps.gov/places/humpback-whale.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/humpback-whale, checked 2026-10-30