🐸 Japanese giant salamander report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the Japanese giant salamander page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the japanese giant salamander
Andrias japonicus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 4.9 ft (1.5 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 51 lb (23 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
The Japanese giant salamander is one of the biggest amphibians. It lives in cold, clear rivers in Japan. In the daytime it hides under rocks.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/japanese-giant-salamander, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the japanese giant salamander
Andrias japonicus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 4.9 ft (1.5 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 51 lb (23 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
Its eyes are very small, so it senses the water instead. Tiny bumps on its head and body feel movement in the water, which is how it finds fish and crabs at night. It breathes mostly through its wrinkly skin, so it needs cool, fast, clean water.
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
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/japanese-giant-salamander, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the japanese giant salamander
Andrias japonicus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 4.9 ft (1.5 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 51 lb (23 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
The Japanese giant salamander belongs to a small family of giant salamanders that includes the Chinese giant salamander and the North American hellbender. It is slow and quiet, and spends its days in a burrow in the riverbank or under rocks. Dams, concrete river walls and dirty water hurt it, so in Japan it is protected as a special natural monument and people work to keep its rivers clean.
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
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/japanese-giant-salamander, checked 2026-10-30