🪼 Moon jellyfish report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the moon jellyfish page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the moon jellyfish
Aurelia aurita · Grades 1–2
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | 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 | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
The moon jellyfish is a soft, clear bell that floats in the sea. It pulses to move along. It has four pale rings in the middle, like little moons.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Fort Matanzas National Monument, nps.gov/foma/learn/nature/jellyfish.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the moon jellyfish
Aurelia aurita · Grades 3–4
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | 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 | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
A moon jelly mostly drifts with the currents, pulsing its bell to push itself along. Food sticks to the slime on its bell, and tiny hairs sweep it toward its mouth. Its stinging cells are weak, so a moon jelly's sting is very mild, but it is still best not to touch any jellyfish.
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, Fort Matanzas National Monument, nps.gov/foma/learn/nature/jellyfish.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the moon jellyfish
Aurelia aurita · Grades 5–6
| Length | 12 in (30 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | 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 | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
A jellyfish is not a fish. It is related to sea anemones and corals, and it is almost all water. A moon jelly starts life as a tiny polyp stuck to a rock, and the polyp makes little jellies that swim away. Tiny spots around the edge of the bell sense light and tell the jelly which way is up.
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, Fort Matanzas National Monument, nps.gov/foma/learn/nature/jellyfish.htm, checked 2026-10-30