🐸 Wood frog report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the wood frog page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the wood frog
Lithobates sylvaticus · Grades 1–2
| Length | 2 to 3 in (5.1 to 7.6 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 wood frog is a small brown frog with a dark mask on its face. It lives in the forest. In winter it freezes, and in spring it thaws and hops again!
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- National Park Service, Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-1.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the wood frog
Lithobates sylvaticus · Grades 3–4
| Length | 2 to 3 in (5.1 to 7.6 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
Wood frogs spend winter under fallen leaves, where parts of their bodies freeze. Their hearts stop beating and they stop breathing until the spring warmth thaws them. A natural sugar in their bodies keeps the ice from harming their cells.
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, Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-1.htm, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the wood frog
Lithobates sylvaticus · Grades 5–6
| Length | 2 to 3 in (5.1 to 7.6 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
Wood frogs are among the first frogs to call in spring, with sounds like quacking ducks, and they gather in woodland pools that fill with melted snow. Their freezing trick lets them live farther north than any other frog in North America. Most of the year, wood frogs live on the forest floor rather than in the water. Their brown color matches dead leaves, which helps them hide.
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, Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-1.htm, checked 2026-10-30