Axolotl Homeschool Resources with Notebooking Pages

Your elementary and middle school students can use these free Axolotl notebooking pages and anatomy worksheets when they are studying this neotenic salamander from Mexico.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Axolotl Homeschool Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these aquatic salamanders that are sometimes called Mexican Walking Fish or Mexican Water Monsters.

Remember the old toy store jingle, “I don’t want to grow up, I’m a ToysRUs kid!”? Well, that is the axolotl’s life motto. They stay in their juvenile metamorphic state instead of changing into their adult state.

Or maybe axolotl’s are just channeling their inner Peter Pan’s Lost Boys?

At any rate, axolotls are neotenic salamanders that only occur naturally in Lake Xochimilco in Mexico and unlike other salamanders, spend their lives in water.

Axolotl Notebooking Pages

With these Axolotl homeschool notebooking pages, your kids can write about the increasingly popular pet (thanks to Minecraft) that has been hybridized with its cousin the tiger salamander, or the critically endangered axolotl that is only found in one place in Mexico in the wild.

Or they can write facts about the life cycle of an axolotl and how they stay in the larval stage of metamorphosis or how they are able to regenerate limbs and other body parts when one is lost. Or they could even learn about the Aztec mythology of the axolotl.

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about aquatic animals for handwriting practice.

Some links in this post may be affiliate links. This means that if you click on them, I may make a tiny commission, at no extra cost to you. For more info, check our privacy policy.

Recommended Resources for Your Study of Axolotls

Books List

For Your Younger Kids: Axolotl Finds a Bottle by Lesley Sims Usborne Phonics book AND/OR A Is for Axolotl: An Unusual Animal ABC by Catherine Macorol

Axolotl!: Fun Facts About the World’s Coolest Salamander by Susan Mason

Axolotl: A Complete Pet Owner’s Guide by Lolly Brown

Fun Facts About Axolotl by Fiona Weber

Videos

Fun Axolotl Facts from Animal Fact Files

Axolotls are masters of regeneration by Animal Logic

Science Friday explains some of the cell regeneration research (for older students)

Caring for a pet axolotl with Girl Talks Fish

How to draw an axolotl by Kids Art Hub

Build an aquarium in Minecraft for your axolotl

Online Resources

The 13 Color Types and Morphs from Pet Keen

Sea Diego Zoo has facts all about axolotls

8 Fascinating Facts with Tree Hugger

How to Care for Axolotls in the game of Minecraft by Gameranx

Fun Extras!

Create an easy axolotl bookmark with this free printable.

Make a super cute and easy axolotl craft with a paper tube.

Get this UNO Minecraft Card Game

Show your love of these fun amphibians with a Axolotls of the world T-shirt

Snuggle with an Axolotl Plush Stuffed Toy

Play with this LEGO Minecraft Underwater Adventure Playset with 3 axolotls

Axolotl Homeschool Notebooking & Journal Printables

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

Each level of notebooking page also comes in a color graphic, with a photo, and in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs. There are 12 pages in total.

These printables are available individually in the Free Resource Library below, or you can get them in one convenient download in our Amphibians Notebooking Bundle in the HHO Shop.

More Resources for Your Study of Amphibians and Unusual Aquatic Animals

Don’t forget to pin this to your favorite Pinterest board so you can find it again later.

And be sure to follow Homeschool Helper Online on Pinterest for more affordable homeschooling resources!