Dolphins Notebooking Pages for Elementary & Middle School Students
These Dolphins notebooking pages printables along with the suggested resources are just what your elementary & middle school kids need to learn about and then record what they have learned about this member of the cetacean family.
Let your students use these Dolphins Notebooking Pages as a part of their biology and ocean studies while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about the marine mammals in the Delphinidae family
With these Dolphins notebooking pages, your kids can write about the nearly 40 species of oceanic dolphins (There are also “river dolphins”, cousins to the oceanic dolphins who live exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.)
There are even some species of dolphins with the common name of “whale” like the orca, the pilot whale, and the narwhal because all dolphins, porpoises, and whales are in the cetacean family.
Or they can write facts or stories about the habitats, life cycles, diets, and behaviors (such as their use of echolocation) and exceptional intelligence of this popular aquatic animal.
These notebooking printables would even work for copying poems about dolphins for handwriting practice.
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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Dolphins
Books List
Dolphins! (Step into Reading) by Sharon Bokoske
Dive Dolphins Nat Geo Reader by Shira Evans OR National Geographic Readers: Dolphins by Melissa Stewart
Dolphins (Amazing Animals) by Kate Riggs
Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) by Wendy Pfeffer
National Geographic Kids: Everything Dolphins: Dolphin Facts, Photos, and Fun that Will Make You Flip by Elizabeth Carney
OR Absolute Expert: Dolphins by Jennifer Swanson (another Nat Geo book)
Dolphin Adventure: A True Story by Wayne Grover
Videos
SciShow Kids: Why Dolphins Are Awesome!
Discovering Dolphins What Sam Sees by Nat Geo Kids (Training Dolphins at the National Aquarium)
Deep Marine Scenes gives us Facts: The Bottlenose Dolphin
5 Unbelievable Dolphin Facts That Will Make You Flip! from Colossal Cranium
Bottlenose Dolphin 🐬 Amazing Animals from Nat Geo Kids
Dolphins: How Smart are They Actually? Inside the Animal Mind from BBC Earth
Online Resources
All About Dolphins by Easy Science for Kids
Fun Dolphin Facts at KidADL
Dolphin Facts for Kids with Dolphins.org
Active Wild gives us more Facts About Dolphins for Kids
Fun & Educational Extras!
Learning About Dolphins (Dover Little Activity Books) by Sy Barlowe
Whales and Dolphins Tube of Plastic Animals
Hope for Winter: The True Story of a Remarkable Dolphin Friendship by Craig Hatkoff
If you have tweens/teens looking for a book to read this summer, you CAN NOT go wrong with either of these (and don’t be surprised if they want to become a marine biologist after reading these 🥰):
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- A Ring of Endless Light Madeleine L’Engle This is the fourth book of a five book series about the Austin Family, but it works fine as a stand alone book.
If your teens are thinking about becoming a marine biologist, here’s a look at what they do: The Dolphins Of Shark Bay (Scientists in the Field) by Pamela S. Turner
Dolphin’s Tale movie and Dolphin’s Tale 2 sequel
Your mom may remember the old TV show that was on from 1964 to 67, Flipper, a family-friendly adventure series about two boys, their widowed dad, and a dolphi
Dolphins Notebooking & Journaling Printables
The Dolphins 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 Dolphin 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 Marine Mammals
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