Crustaceans Notebooking Pages for Elementary & Middle School Students
These Crustaceans notebooking pages and suggested resources come in 3 differentiated levels for your elementary & middle school kids to record what they have learned about these armored aquatic creatures.
Let your students use these Crustaceans Notebooking Pages as a part of their biology and science study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about the animals in the Subphylum Crustacea.
With these Crustaceans notebooking pages, your kids can write about some of the other crustaceans besides the crab and clawed lobsters or about the fishing/farming industries to supply restaurants and grocery stores with crabs, lobsters, crayfish and more.
Or they can write facts or stories about one of the many diverse species in the Crustacea subphylum, maybe the smallest crustacean, the Stygotantulus stock (which is also the smallest Arthropod in the world at 0.004) or the biggest one, the Japanese Spider Crab, which has a leg span of 12 1/2 feet!
These notebooking printables would even work for copying poems about some of these sea creatures with exoskeletons for handwriting practice.
For example, Sir A.P. Herbert wrote in 1921:
Thousands of Barnacles, small and great,
Stick to the jolly old Ship of State;
So we mustn’t be cross if she seems to crawl—
It’s rather a marvel she goes at all.
Some of the creatures in this subphylum live on land and are more closely related to insects (such as woodlice), but most are aquatic beings. Many of them are free-living, a few are parasitic and some are even sessile, like barnacles.
Not all aquatic crustaceans live in the ocean either! One of the most popular freshwater ones where I live is the crawdad. Now, you may know them as a crawdad, crayfish, craydid, crawdaddy, freshwater lobster, mountain lobster, rock lobster, mudbug, bay bug, or yabby. Whatever you call them, they are just one of the many aquatic crustaceans in the world.
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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Crustaceans
Books List
Crustaceans (My First Animal Kingdom Encyclopedias) by Emma Carlson Berne
About Crustaceans: A Guide for Children by Cathryn Sill
Giant Isopods and Other Crafty Crustaceans (Creatures of the Deep) by Heidi Moore
What Are Crustaceans? (Let’s Find Out!) by Therese Shae
Videos
What are Crustaceans? Science for Kids with Little School
5 of the largest crustaceans in the world by Tsuki
Marine Arthropods: Bugs of the Sea? by JONATHAN BIRD’S BLUE WORLD
Spiny Lobster Facts by Deep Marine Scenes
Japanese Spider Crabs at Deep Marine Scenes
Christmas Crab 🦀 Amazing Animals by Nat Geo Kids (Does have a brief cannibalism scene)
Beautiful Science gives us The Science of Crabs
The Giant Isopod Looks Like A Cockroach That Lives Under Water with Everything Explained
Online Resources
Giant Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) with Monteray Bay Museum
Prawns & Shrimp with DK Find Out
Krill with DK Find Out
Fun Facts about Barnacles with KidADL
Easy Science for Kids: Crustacean Facts
Creatures of the Subphylum Crustacea at Kiddle
Interesting Facts about Crustaceans from Just Fun Facts
Photos of Just a Few Types of Species in Crustacea
Fun & Educational Extras!
How to Draw a Crab by Art for kids hub
How to Draw a Crayfish by Art for Kids Hub
How to build a LEGO Bathynomus Giganteus
Bathynomus Giganteus Stuffed Plush Toy?!? It’s related to woodlice–not what I want to curl up with, but apparently, it’s a thing in Japanese culture
Crustaceans Notebooking & Journaling Printables
The crustacean notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your students’ 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 total.
Download your copy of the Crustaceans Notebooking & Journaling printables from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking> Science > Animals > Ocean Animals
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More Resources for Your Study of Aquatic Crustaceans
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