🐡 Ocean sunfish report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the ocean sunfish page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the ocean sunfish
Mola mola · Grades 1–2
| Length | 7.9 ft (2.4 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 2.5 tons (2.3 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 14 mph (22 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
The ocean sunfish is a big, round fish that looks like a giant head with fins. It has no real tail. It lies on its side at the top of the sea to soak up the sun.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, Olympic Coast, sanctuaries.noaa.gov/pgallery/pgolympic/living/living_10.html, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia National Park, nps.gov/articles/ocean-sunfish-gentle-giants-now-found-in-acadia-s-waters.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fws.gov/story/solar-powered-fish-jellies-their-bellies-molas, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the ocean sunfish
Mola mola · Grades 3–4
| Length | 7.9 ft (2.4 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 2.5 tons (2.3 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 14 mph (22 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
An ocean sunfish swims by flapping its tall fins above and below its body, like wings, and it steers with a stubby, rounded back fin instead of a tail. It eats jellyfish, which are mostly water, so it needs to eat a lot. After diving into cold water to find food, it rests on its side near the top of the sea to warm up in the sun.
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 National Marine Sanctuaries, Olympic Coast, sanctuaries.noaa.gov/pgallery/pgolympic/living/living_10.html, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia National Park, nps.gov/articles/ocean-sunfish-gentle-giants-now-found-in-acadia-s-waters.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fws.gov/story/solar-powered-fish-jellies-their-bellies-molas, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the ocean sunfish
Mola mola · Grades 5–6
| Length | 7.9 ft (2.4 m) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 2.5 tons (2.3 tonnes) |
| Top speed | 14 mph (22 km/h) |
| How long it lives | not checked yet: look it up! |
Read about it
Ocean sunfish are the heaviest bony fish in the world, yet they begin life as tiny babies. Their teeth are joined together into a beak, and their thick, rough skin helps protect them. They travel through open water in warm and mild seas, diving down deep to find jellyfish and coming back up to warm. Floating trash can harm them, because a plastic bag can look like a jellyfish, so keeping the sea clean helps sunfish.
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 National Marine Sanctuaries, Olympic Coast, sanctuaries.noaa.gov/pgallery/pgolympic/living/living_10.html, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Acadia National Park, nps.gov/articles/ocean-sunfish-gentle-giants-now-found-in-acadia-s-waters.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fws.gov/story/solar-powered-fish-jellies-their-bellies-molas, checked 2026-10-30