🦘 Red kangaroo report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the red kangaroo page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the red kangaroo
Osphranter rufus · Grades 1–2
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height | 5.9 ft (1.8 m) |
| 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
Red kangaroos hop on their big back legs. A baby kangaroo is called a joey. It lives in its mother's pouch.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, How to Care for Wallabies, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/how-care-wallabies, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the red kangaroo
Osphranter rufus · Grades 3–4
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height | 5.9 ft (1.8 m) |
| 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 red kangaroo uses its long tail like a fifth leg when it moves slowly, and for balance when it hops fast. A newborn joey is tiny, no bigger than a jellybean, and crawls into its mother's pouch to 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
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, How to Care for Wallabies, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/how-care-wallabies, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the red kangaroo
Osphranter rufus · Grades 5–6
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height | 5.9 ft (1.8 m) |
| 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
Red kangaroos are the largest marsupials, mammals whose babies finish growing in a pouch. Hopping is a very efficient way to travel: their tendons stretch and spring back like a pogo stick. In the hot outback they rest in the shade by day and feed in the cool of evening and night, and they can go a long time without drinking.
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
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, How to Care for Wallabies, nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/how-care-wallabies, checked 2026-10-30