Student Name: Conor Kilpatrick

Step 1: ​
Insect I chose to research: ​
the wasp

Step 2: Insect Graphic Organizer for Research

Use the suggested resources on the Q&A Guide, as well as other resources you find, to
research the key questions below. Make sure to write down the source you got your
answers from.

Key Questions: Answer: Source:

Wasps are yellow and black. Wasps have 4 pebblego

What does my insect wings and 2 antennae.
look like? (Describe
the appearance)

Wasps have a head , a thorax , and an pebblego

What are the abdomen.
different body parts
of my insect?

Without wasps , we would have to many pebblego

How is the insect insect pests.
helpful to the
environment, other
insects, or humans?

Wasps are harmful to the environment by pebblego

How is the insect stinging any living thing.
harmful to the
environment, other
insects, or humans?

Wasps live any where but Antarctica. PebbleGo

What is my insects
habitat? Where in
the world does my
insect live?

Step 3: Graphic Organizer for Rough Draft Expository Paragraph

Use the research above to write a rough draft paragraph about your insect.
 Bold Beginning: ​ (Introduce your insect name and grab the reader’s attention… think,
RING OF LEADS, BOLD BEGINNING!)
If you a sound like this bzzzzz, it may be a wasp.

Mighty Middle: ​ (Use my research to write five, detailed sentences about my insect, and
remember TRANSITIONS and WORD CHOICE!)
If you hear or see a wasp , stay calm and careful, because they will sting you if you are
not calm and careful. Don’t be scared, because if you are scared , you might run away. If
you run away , the wasp will just chase you. You also have to know what wasps look like,
wasps are black and yellow. Wasp bones are outside wasps bodies called an exoskeleton.
We don’t have an exoskeleton , but all insects do have an exoskeleton. Wasps eat nectar.
Nectar is something used for pollination.

Exciting Ending/Closing your Paragraph: ​ (Wrap up paragraph by summarizing and

not adding new information, which tells your reader you are concluding your paragraph)
Wasps are very cool to learn about. When you grow up , you should explore wasps.

Final Steps to producing the final products of your insect project

Step 4: Editing your Rough Draft
Ask mom, dad, an older sibling, grandparents, a tutor or any adult, to sit and edit your
rough draft paragraph. We want to see the editing marks above on your rough draft
sentences. Have your adult editor use pen to help show the corrections.
 AMAZING WASPS!

BY: CONOR KILPATRICK

If you a sound like this bzzzzz, it may be a wasp. If you hear or see a wasp , stay calm

and be careful, because they will sting you if you are not calm and careful. Don’t be scared,

because if you are scared , you might run away. If you run away , the wasp will just chase

you. You also have to know what wasps look like, wasps are black and yellow. Wasp bones

are outside of wasps bodies called an exoskeleton. We don’t have an exoskeleton , but all

insects do have an exoskeleton. Wasps eat nectar. Nectar is something used for pollination.

Wasps are very cool to learn about. When you grow up , you should explore wasps.
Here is the rough draft that my students helped me edit and revise: