Animal Research Report | Ocean Animals and Marine Biology Informational Writing
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Description
Engage your students with this research and writing report template featuring sea animals. These templates contain graphic organizers to differentiate and scaffold to meet the needs of your students. The templates will fit in nicely with your classroom, whether you're practicing research skills or taking a trip to the zoo!
Sea animals are always an engaging topic for students. This informative essay contains guided research. Students are assigned a sea animal and must complete the research pages. Once this is done, they can begin the explanatory essay assignment!
This resource is differentiated, so students of all levels from grades 3-5 have a scaffolded path to their essays. The kiddos love this resource, and they love learning about the animals in the ocean!
This product is black-and-white; very printer-friendly!
Check out the bundle for an entire research project!
This resource includes:
- Directions
- Quick tips with possible websites to use
- Means to assign animals to students
- Assignment description for students
- Research guide:
- Basic information
- Physical characteristics
- Way of Life
- Miscellaneous
- Compare/Contrast to other student's animal
- Quotes
- Interesting Facts
- Sources
- Level 1 Writing
- Fill-in-the-blank style
- Paragraphs and essays mostly written for students
- Level 2 Writing
- Some support
- Transition, hook, and thesis explanation pages
- Gives some guidance for writing
- Level 3 Writing
- Blank essay template
- Students do not have much of a guide
- Peer/self writing checklist
- AIR test adapted rubric for teacher
- Essay writing paper
Ocean animals included:
- Orca
- Stingray
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Great white shark
- Beluga whale
- Pufferfish
- Electric eel
- Clownfish
- Jellyfish
- Blue whale
- Lobster
- Barracuda
- Manatee
- Fangtooth
- Octopus
- Flying fish
- Giant squid
- Swordfish
- Lionfish
- Hermit crab
- Seahorse
- Starfish
- Sea turtle
- Regal tang
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