Owls Notebooking Printables for Nature Study

Your elementary and middle school students can use these free Owls notebooking pages when they are studying this unusual nocturnal bird that is often called “wise”.

Owls notebooking printables for free for 2nd to 12th grades

You and your students will learn all about owls when you let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Owls Notebooking as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these nocturnal birds of prey.

These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.

Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about these nocturnal predators from the class Aves, order Strigiformes, and the two families: Strigidae and Tytonidae.

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Resources for Learning about Owls

Library List

Select 2 or 3 of these books at the appropriate reading level for your student. In order of difficulty:

Hoot, Owl! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Pre-Reader) by Shelby Alinsky

Owls (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1) by Laura Marsh

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell (a sweet fiction picture book about a set of owl babies)

Owl at Home (I Can Read Level 2) by Arnold Lobel (a fictional reader, but a classic story your kids will love)

Snowy Owls by Melissa Hill

The Barn Owls by Tony Johnston Another fiction picture book that is also informative. Also on Hoopla

*Owls by Gail Gibbons This is an excellent resource for learning about the different kinds of owls, their habitats, and their behavior.

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat A fiction reader for your upper elementary-middle school student. Also on Hoopla

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Online Resources for Learning about Owls

Owl Diets and Habitats

Great Horned Owls

Facts about Snowy Owls

Characteristics of Owls

Statistics about Owls–their scientific classification, where they live, etc.

15 Fun Facts (check out #5, which shows you how an owl’s eye color tells you when they hunt)

Owl Facts Videos

Who Knew? Owls Facts from SciShow Kids

Owl Facts for Kids with Learn Bright

Spotted Owl (Amazing Animals with Nat Geo Kids)

Barn Owls: the other kind of owl (Tytonidae)

Great Horned Owl

Eurasian Eagle Owl (one of the largest owls)

Barred Owl Facts

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (rare and endangered–it’s the largest owl. It’s sometimes called Blakiston’s Eagle owl)

Fun Extras

A W oo d l a n d s N ative American Fable about how Owl became wise (video)

An Eskimo folktale about The Owl and the Lemming (spoiler alert: the owl catches the lemming, but doesn’t hurt him)

Great Horned Owl with Authentic Bird Sound, Stuffed Animal

Li’l Woodzeez Owl Family Set

Owls 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 48 printable pages in total.

Each level of the Owls printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about owls, like this one by Jane E. Brown, called The Great Brown Owl.