Cave Notebooking Pages in 3 Levels for 1st to 8th Grades
These free Cave Formations & Cave Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned in their study of the geology of caves, stalactites, and stalagmites.
These Cave notebooking pages can be used for your study of how caves are formed, along with stalagmites and stalactites, plus the general geology of caves.
This is a great notebooking page to use when your early elementary student studies caves. You can write about a field trip to a cave or a short report about any of the following topics:
- mining
- sea caves
- cave men
- cave paintings
- stalactites
- stalagmites
- cave formations
- cave Geology
Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about caves and how they are formed.
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about Caves, such as this excerpt from How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
“He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos,
Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.” —
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss
These notebooking pages about Caves and Cave Formations come in 3 differentiated levels to fit all of your student’s needs.
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Resources for Learning About the Caves and Cave Formations
Books
Caves and Caverns by Gail Gibbons
The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein OR Discovery in the Cave by Mark Dubowski
Videos
Life in Caves by Nat Geo (may spark an interest in geology or spelunking)
Types of Caves with Free School
Cave Art Researcher from Nat Geo Kids
Stalactites and Stalagmites Experiment by Mad Science of West NJ
Troglobites with BBC
The Blind Cave Fish with Jonathan’s Blue World
How Are Caves Formed? with Atlas Pro (for older kids)
The Story of Caves with Keith Edwards (In-depth information for older kids–and parents too!)
The History of Mammoth Cave by Bedtime History (one of my favorite podcasts!)
Online Resources
World of Caves: Troglobites
National Park Service details the formations often found in caves
Stalactites and Stalagmites and other Cave Formations at Mammoth Cave
Learn about Speleothems at the last cave I toured: Ononadaga Cave
Just for Fun
Toob Plastic Animals: Cave Dwellers
Stalactites, Stalagmites, and Cave 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 12 pages in total.
Each level of the Cave printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.
There are several different topics in this pack of printables about Caves
- Cave Formations
- Stalactites and Stalagmites
- Cave Painting or Art
Download your copy of the Cave Notebooking pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking >Science > Geology
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