Orca Notebooking Pages for Elementary & Middle School Students

These Orca notebooking pages and suggested resources will help your elementary & middle school kids learn, and then record, what they have learned about this animal at the top of the oceanic food chain, the Orcinus orca.

Let your students use these Orca Notebooking Pages as a part of their marine biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about the Killer Whale.

Over the years orcas have also been called grampus, blackwhale, whale killer, sea wolf, and killer whale, despite being the largest member of the dolphin family.

With these Orca notebooking pages, your kids can write about the different ecotypes of orcas found around the world or their very specialized and unique hunting techniques that make them apex predators, like wolves.

Or they can write facts or stories about the structure of the orca’s family, or the special ways that they communicate because of their high intellect.

These notebooking printables would even work for copying poems about Orcas for handwriting practice.

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Orcas, The Wolves of the Sea

Books List

Album of Whales by Tom McGowen Beautiful book with great information about whales, dolphins, and porpoises

OR Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises by Mark Cawardine this book has been published and republished in 1995, 2005, and 2020. Any edition will work

Absolute Expert: Dolphins by Jennifer Swanson (yep! Orca are dolphins–and all dolphins are whales, but not all whales are dolphins!)

Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer by Donna Sandstrom. A heart-warming story of the only successful reunification of an orphaned orca for 3rd to 7th grades. Written from an environmentalist viewpoint.

Another book about the same orca, written for younger kids: The Spirit of Springer: The Real-Life Rescue of an Orphaned Orca by Amanda Abler

Granny’s Clan: A Lyrical, Heartwarming Family Story Perfect for Young Marine Biologists by Sally Hodson for elementary

Whales: Killer Whales, Blue Whales and More by Deborah Hodge

Videos

The Insane Biology of Orcas by Real Science for middle/high school kids Covers echolocation and the other ways Orca communicate with one another; their social pod behaviors; and their intelligence and brain structure. Briefly mentions evolution three times.

Why Killer Whales Are APEX Predators! with Origins Explained for upper elementary and older

Orca Facts by Animal Fact Files Elementary and up

5 Ways Orcas Kill Their Prey with SciShow (perhaps not for squeamish kids)

Luna, an orphaned orca, plays with his human friend, filmed by Suzanne Chisholm

Amateur footage of swimming with orcas in Bora Bora: Tahora Bora Bora Lagoon Tours

These three videos are the best choices for your younger kids.

Orca Facts with Natural World Facts

Killer Whale Facts from Deep Marine Scenes

The River & Wilder Show Kayak with Orcas and Humpback Whales

Online Resources

National Geographic: Orca Facts

Nat Geo Kids: Orca Information

Orca Fact Sheets for Kids by Orca Research Trust

Killer Whale Facts at Active Wild

Your older kids may be interested in how researchers identify individual orcs at the Center for Whale Research

Fun Extras!

How to Draw an Orca with Art for Kids Hub

Whales and Dolphins Plastic Figurine Toys

Namu, the Killer Whale 1966 G is available on Amazon Prime. A family-friendly movie based upon a true story about Namu begins like a documentary for the first couple of minutes, then turns into a heart-warming story of a friendship between a marine scientist and a killer whale.

Octavius The Orca Blackfish stuffed animals

Free Willy 1993 PG A heartwarming movie about a friendship between an orca and a foster child. There are 2 sequels, but the first one really is the best!

The Orca 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 Marine Biology Study of the Delphinidae and Odontoceti (toothed whales) Families

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