Cows and Cattle Notebooking Pages

You can use these free bovine notebooking pages to write about the popular farm animal, cows. Students in 2nd to 8th grades can use these printables as a part of their study about these mostly meek, but beefy, mammals.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Cows and Cattle Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these fuzzy, gentle, farm animals that have been domesticated all around the world.

Cow Notebooking Pages

With these Cow and Cattle homeschool notebooking pages, your kids can write about the Bos taurus, an ungulate mammal that is often kept on farms for both milk and beef. Learn what cows eat and how they digest their vegetarian diet, how they communicate, what their purpose on a farm is, and the different breeds of cows.

Or they can write facts about the life cycle of a cow and the different names for males, females, and their young.

Topics included in these farm animal printables:

• Cattle
• Cows
• Cow, Heifer, Steer, or Bull?
• Bovines
• Cattle versus Oxen
• Bovine Species
• Blank Bovine Species (select one species to highlight)
• Live Cycle of Bovines
• Cows: Diet and Digestion
• Ruminants
• Internal Anatomy of Bovines
• External Anatomy of Bovines

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

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Cows

Books List

The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

From the Farm to the Table Beef by Kathy Coatney

Milk: From Cow to Carton (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Book) by Aliki

It’s Milking Time by Phyllis Alsdurf

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery and Temple Grandin

Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle, 4th Edition: Health, Handling, Breeding

Videos and Online Resources

Learning about Cows (for younger kids)

Simple Cow Facts

A to Z list of Cow Facts (includes types of cows)

15 most common Cow Breeds in the USA (includes pictures)

Cow Anatomy

Cows’ Dietary Needs

10 Facts About Cows

Everything you need to know about cows from the Smithsonian Zoo

Ruminant digestion explained (for middle/high school and parents)

Hands-on Activities

Learn how farmers prepare the right combination of nutrients for cows’ feed in this fun, real-life activity Of Cows and Children from Clover by 4-H. (you will need to sign up for a free educator account to view the activity, but it’s worth it!)

Learn some cow jokes for kids.

Learn how to draw a cute cow with these instructions.

Cattle and Cows Notebooking & Journal Printables

These notebooking pages come in 3 different 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.

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 28 printable pages total.

Additionally, there is a full color Label the External Bovine Anatomy worksheet and a Label the Internal Bovine Anatomy worksheet included in this pack.

More Resources for Your Study of Farm Animals

You might also like our cow breed notebooking page and our cattle information notebooking page.

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