🐟 Lined seahorse report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the lined seahorse page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the lined seahorse
Hippocampus erectus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 2.2 to 7.3 in (5.5 to 19 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 4 years |
Read about it
A seahorse is a small fish with a head like a horse. It swims standing up. The dad has a pouch on his belly where the eggs grow.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA Fisheries, Fishery Bulletin (PDF), spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/01baumfi.pdf, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the lined seahorse
Hippocampus erectus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 2.2 to 7.3 in (5.5 to 19 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 4 years |
Read about it
A seahorse grips seagrass with its curly tail so the current can't sweep it away. It has no teeth and sucks up tiny shrimp whole through its long snout, like a straw. Each of its eyes can look in a different direction at the same 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, Fishery Bulletin (PDF), spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/01baumfi.pdf, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the lined seahorse
Hippocampus erectus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 2.2 to 7.3 in (5.5 to 19 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 4 years |
Read about it
Seahorses are bony fish, though they look like no other: they have no scales, and their skin is stretched over rings of bony plates. They swim upright using a tiny fin on the back that flutters very fast, so they are slow and rely on hiding, sometimes changing color to match the seagrass. The mother puts her eggs into the father's belly pouch, and he carries them until the tiny seahorses are ready, then pushes them out. Lined seahorses are listed as vulnerable, mainly because seagrass beds are being lost and many are caught for pets and dried medicine, so people protect their seagrass homes.
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, Fishery Bulletin (PDF), spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/01baumfi.pdf, checked 2026-10-30