🐨 Koala report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the koala page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the koala
Phascolarctos cinereus · Grades 1–2
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
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| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 8.8 to 33 lb (4 to 15 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Koalas are not bears. A mother carries her baby in a pouch, like a kangaroo. Koalas eat leaves and sleep a lot.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2000 (Threatened Status for the Koala), federalregister.gov/documents/2000/05/09/00-11507/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-final-determination-of-threatened-status-for-the-koala, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the koala
Phascolarctos cinereus · Grades 3–4
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
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| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 8.8 to 33 lb (4 to 15 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
A koala eats mostly eucalyptus leaves, which are tough and even poisonous to many animals. They give very little energy, so a koala sleeps most of the day. A baby koala, called a joey, grows in its mother's pouch and then rides on her back.
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
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2000 (Threatened Status for the Koala), federalregister.gov/documents/2000/05/09/00-11507/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-final-determination-of-threatened-status-for-the-koala, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the koala
Phascolarctos cinereus · Grades 5–6
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
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| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 8.8 to 33 lb (4 to 15 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Koalas are marsupials, not bears, and they live in the eucalyptus forests of eastern Australia. Eucalyptus leaves are toxic to most animals, but koalas have a long gut full of helpful microbes that handle them, and they get most of their water from the leaves. Each front paw has two thumb-like fingers for gripping branches, and sharp claws for climbing. Koalas are in trouble in many places because forests are cleared and bushfires burn their trees, so people are planting eucalyptus and protecting koala forests.
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
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2000 (Threatened Status for the Koala), federalregister.gov/documents/2000/05/09/00-11507/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-final-determination-of-threatened-status-for-the-koala, checked 2026-10-30