Elephant Seal Notebooking Pages

These Printable Elephant Seal Notebooking Pages and suggested resources are just what your elementary & middle school kids need to record what they have learned about the two species of the largest seals, the Northern Elephant Seal and the Southern Elephant Seal.

These journaling and notebook printables about come in 3 differentiated levels to help your students with their study of animals in the Phocidae family.

Elephant seals are marine mammals that get their name from both their huge size and the large nose on the male of the species.  They are also sometimes called sea elephants.

You can use this printable page to write interesting elephant seal facts such as their diet, habitat, pups, and more.

You might also want to check out our other ocean life notebooking pages.

With these Elephant Seal notebooking pages, your kids can write about interesting elephant seal facts such as their diet, habitat, pups, and more. Or they can write a story about an elephant seal that includes information about their unique diving and swimming characteristics.

These notebooking printables would even work for copying poems about pinnipeds (seals) for handwriting practice.

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of the Northern & Southern Elephant Seals

Books List

Southern Elephant Seal: The Biggest Seal in the World (More Supersized!) by Meish Goldish

Walrus vs. Elephant Seal (Who Would Win?) by Jerry Pallotta

Journey of the Elephant Seals (Massive Animal Migrations) by AnneRenee Goyette

Videos

California’s Awesome Elephant Seals! with Maddie Moate this video does not contain any breeding scenes 😉

Elephant Seal Vs Walrus! Deadly Animal Showdowns with BBC Earth Kids for kids that don’t mind a bit of blood in scenes of walruses and seals fighting (other males of their species, not each other)

Larger Than Life: The Story of the Northern Elephant Seal by Palomar Films (note: contains a few very brief 2-3 seconds breeding scenes)

Just How BIG are Elephant Seals? by BBC Earth

Online Resources

Fun Facts from Kiddle

Facts for Kids: Southern Elephant Seal with Active Wild

Live Cam at ElephantSeal.org see live views of the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

Kid Zone at ElephantSeal.org

Totally Not Necessary, but Nevertheless Fun Accompaniments

Plastic Ocean Animal Toys for small worlds

Elephant Seal Notebooking & Journaling Printables

The Elephant Seal 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.

More Resources for Your Study of Ocean Life

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