Differences Between Alligators and Crocodiles Printables

Your elementary and middle school students can use these free alligator notebooking pages when they are studying the differences between alligators and crocodiles.

A Venn diagram worksheet for listing the similarities and differences between crocodiles and alligators is also included; as well as a copywork worksheet of the poem, See You Later Alligator.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Alligators and Crocodiles Differences Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these large carnivorous, cold-blooded reptiles that spend most of their time hanging out in marshes.

These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.

Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about these two reptiles, Alligators and Crocodiles.

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Resources for Learning about the Similarities and Differences Between Alligators and Crocodiles

Library List

Alligators and Crocodiles by Gail Gibbons

Crocodiles & Alligators by Seymour Simon

Online Resources and Videos

Please see the additional online resources for alligators and crocodiles at their individual posts.

Science Kids has lists of similarities and differences

Sciencing tells about the similarities between crocs and gators

Little Fox American Alligator and Nile Crocodile (for your younger kids)

Nat Geo’s Cool Facts about Alligators and Crocodiles

Thinking Captain’s Differences between Crocodiles and Alligators

The Wild Files’ Alligator or Crocodile: What’s the Difference? (for middle school and up)

CrocDoc has a very in-depth look at how to tell an alligator from a crocodile. (middle school and up)

Alligator or Crocodile? Notebooking and Journaling Printables

These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary-lined one, a smaller elementary-lined one, and a regular-lined one. There are 11 pages in total.

Each level of the Alligators versus Crocodiles printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about alligators and crocodiles, such as See You Later, Alligator.

Additionally, there is a copywork worksheet of the modern-day nursery rhyme, See You Later, Alligator, included in this pack.

This printables are available on their own in the Free Resource Library below, and they are also in our Crocodilian Reptiles Notebooking Bundle in the HHO Shop.

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