🐸 Spotted salamander report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the spotted salamander page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the spotted salamander
Ambystoma maculatum · Grades 1–2
| Length | 4.4 to 9.8 in (11 to 25 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 | 20 to 30 years |
Read about it
The spotted salamander is black with bright yellow spots. It hides under logs and rocks in the forest. It comes out at night when it rains.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, nps.gov/chat/learn/nature/spotted-salamander.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Minute Man National Historical Park, nps.gov/mima/learn/nature/reptiles-and-amphibians.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the spotted salamander
Ambystoma maculatum · Grades 3–4
| Length | 4.4 to 9.8 in (11 to 25 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 | 20 to 30 years |
Read about it
Spotted salamanders spend most of their lives underground, in animal burrows or under logs. On the first warm, rainy nights of spring, they walk to woodland pools to lay jelly-like eggs. The young swim with feathery gills, then grow legs and leave the pool in summer.
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, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, nps.gov/chat/learn/nature/spotted-salamander.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Minute Man National Historical Park, nps.gov/mima/learn/nature/reptiles-and-amphibians.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the spotted salamander
Ambystoma maculatum · Grades 5–6
| Length | 4.4 to 9.8 in (11 to 25 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 | 20 to 30 years |
Read about it
Spotted salamanders often return to the same woodland pool year after year. Many of these pools, called vernal pools, form only in spring and dry up later, so they are home to few fish. Green algae grow inside the jelly of the eggs, making oxygen that helps the young salamanders grow. Because small woodland pools are easy to drain or fill in, saving them helps salamanders and frogs.
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, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, nps.gov/chat/learn/nature/spotted-salamander.htm, checked 2026-10-30
- National Park Service, Minute Man National Historical Park, nps.gov/mima/learn/nature/reptiles-and-amphibians.htm, checked 2026-10-30