🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the loggerhead sea turtle page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta · Grades 1–2
| Length | 30 in to 3.5 ft (76 cm to 1.1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 201 to 351 lb (91 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
The loggerhead sea turtle has a big head. Its strong jaws crack open crabs and clams. Mother turtles lay their eggs in the sand at night.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/loggerhead-turtle, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta · Grades 3–4
| Length | 30 in to 3.5 ft (76 cm to 1.1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 201 to 351 lb (91 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
A loggerhead has a reddish-brown shell and strong jaw muscles for crunching hard-shelled food. Baby loggerheads hatch at night and crawl to the sea. Then they drift on ocean currents and rest in floating mats of seaweed while they grow.
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/loggerhead-turtle, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta · Grades 5–6
| Length | 30 in to 3.5 ft (76 cm to 1.1 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 201 to 351 lb (91 to 159 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 70 years |
Read about it
Loggerheads are known for their long journeys, riding ocean currents when young and swimming back to coastal waters when older. Scientists follow them with satellite tags to learn where they travel. Bright lights confuse hatchlings, so beach towns in Florida turn their lights down during nesting season. Volunteers walk the beaches in the morning to find and mark nests, so that they stay safe.
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/loggerhead-turtle, checked 2026-10-30