Sharks Notebooking Pages for Elementary & Middle School Students

These Shark notebooking pages and suggested resources will help your elementary & middle school kids learn about and then record what they have learned about the life cycle, habitat, and diet of this fascinating elasmobranch fish.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of Shark Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about the many species of sharks in the Chondrichthyes class of the animal kingdom.

Did you know that new shark species are being discovered all the time? Right now, there are more than 400 different known species.

Or do you know what a group of sharks is called? (spoiler: it’s a shiver)

Or what mammal (besides humans) are sharks’ greatest enemy? (It’s orcas, isn’t that crazy??!!)

With these Shark notebooking pages, your kids can write about one or more of the very diverse species of sharks around the world.

Or they can write facts about the different life cycles, (some of born live, and some lay eggs in mermaid purses or a corkscrew sac) or their habitats, diets, or predators.

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about ocean life or sharks for handwriting practice.

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Sharks

Books List

For your younger kids: I am the Shark by Joan Holub

Sharks by Gail Gibbons

Face to Face with Sharks by Nat Geo

National Geographic Kids Everything Sharks: All the shark facts, photos, and fun that you can sink your teeth into by Ruth Musgrave

The Ultimate Book of Sharks by Brian Skerry (Nat Geo Kids)

National Geographic Kids Chapters: Diving With Sharks!: And More True Stories of Extreme Adventures! by Margaret Gurevich

Super Shark Encyclopedia: And Other Creatures of the Deep by DK OR Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures Visual Encyclopedia by DK

Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating

Videos

Nat Geo Kids: What Sam Sees Shark Dive and Swimming with a Small Shark

SciShow Kids Super Sharks! and How Sharks Find Food with Electricity

River and Wilder Swim with Sharks, Stingrays, and Eels

Hammerhead Shark Facts from Animal Facts

Animal Fact Files has videos about many different kinds of sharks like:

• Bull Sharks
• Goblin Sharks
• Lemon Sharks
• Thresher Sharks

Mr. DeMaio has Sharks Facts (probably most interesting to upper elementary and older)

Online Resources

DK Find Out: Sharks

Thrilling Shark Facts at Kidadl

Active Wild has more Facts About Sharks for Kids

Great White Shark Facts from Nat Geo Kids

Sharks and Rays explains how sharks are different from rays

12 Shark Facts that May Surprise You by NOAA Fisheries

Fun Extras!

Print out these jokes about sharks for your kids to tell to friends and family.

Your younger students will enjoy this printable Shark Easy Reader book.

The Ultimate Sticker Book Sharks by DK

Discovery Shark Explorer Playset

Shark Nature Tube Plastic Figures

Shark Notebooking & Journaling Printables

The Shark 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 Large Predators of the Ocean

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