🐟 Sockeye salmon report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the sockeye salmon page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the sockeye salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka · Grades 1–2
| Length | 18 to 30 in (46 to 76 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 4 to 15 lb (1.8 to 6.8 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 5 years |
Read about it
Sockeye salmon hatch in a stream and swim out to the sea. Later they swim all the way back home. When they come home, their bodies turn bright red!
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- NOAA Fisheries, fisheries.noaa.gov/species/sockeye-salmon, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the sockeye salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka · Grades 3–4
| Length | 18 to 30 in (46 to 76 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 4 to 15 lb (1.8 to 6.8 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 5 years |
Read about it
A sockeye starts life as a tiny fish in a stream or lake, then swims down to the sea to grow big. After living in the ocean for a while, it finds its way back to the very stream where it hatched, helped by its sense of smell. On the trip home it swims up rivers and leaps up small waterfalls, and its silver body turns red with a green head.
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/sockeye-salmon, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the sockeye salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka · Grades 5–6
| Length | 18 to 30 in (46 to 76 cm) |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | 4 to 15 lb (1.8 to 6.8 kg) |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 5 years |
Read about it
Sockeye salmon spend most of their lives in the North Pacific, eating plankton and tiny shrimp-like krill, which give their flesh its deep red color. When it is time to head home, they use the smell of the water, which they remember from when they were small, to find their own stream. Their journeys carry food from the sea to the forests, helping bears, eagles and even trees. Some groups of sockeye are in trouble because of dams and warming rivers, so people build fish ladders and protect streams.
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/sockeye-salmon, checked 2026-10-30