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What I Know
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What I Want to Know
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Topic _______________________________________________________________
What I Learned
Directions: Write your topic (the animal you will research) on the first line. In the
chart, write what you know about it and what you want to know. Then write information
sources you can use. As you research, write information to use in your report.
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What I Know
Ladybugs can fly.
They live in gardens.
They are small and
have dots.
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What I Want to Know
Are all ladybugs
females?
Why do people like
them in gardens?
Do ladybugs live in
other places?
What kinds of books
and other sources
can help me?
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What I Learned
Ladybugs are beetles.
There are males and
females.
They fly and crawl and
climb plants.
They eat aphids. Aphids
drink plant sap.
Books: Ladybugology by
Michael Elsohn Ross
What About Ladybugs? by
Celia Godkin
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Topic Ladybugs
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Directions: Write your topic (the animal you will research) on the first line. In the
chart, write what you know about it and what you want to know. Then write information
sources you can use. As you research, write information to use in your report.
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Ladybug, Ladybug
Ladybugs are not all femailes. There are mailes too,
like other beetles. Ladybugs fly. But they clime on
plants most.
Garden people are glad to see ladybugs. Ladybugs
eat aphids.
The book Ladybugology by Michael Elsohn Ross tells
about people who thought these bugs brought luck.
They were signs of weddings and good wheather. Now
they are signs of good gardens. People like ladybugs for
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alot of reasons.
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Ladybugs are not all femailes. There are mailes too,
like other beetles. Ladybugs fly. But they clime on
of the time.
plants most.
People with gardens
Garden people are glad to see ladybugs. Ladybugs
, tiny bugs that hurt plants by drinking sap.
eat aphids.
The book Ladybugology by Michael Elsohn Ross tells
about people who thought these bugs brought luck.
In the past,
They were signs of weddings and good wheather. Now
they are signs of good gardens. People like ladybugs for
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alot of reasons.
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females
males
Ladybugs are not all femailes. There are mailes too,
climb
like other beetles. Ladybugs fly. But they clime on
of the time.
,
plants most.
People with gardens
Garden people are glad to see ladybugs. Ladybugs
, tiny bugs that hurt plants by drinking sap.
eat aphids.
The book Ladybugology by Michael Elsohn Ross tells
about people who thought these bugs brought luck.
weather
In the past,
They were signs of weddings and good wheather. Now
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they are signs of good gardens. People like ladybugs for
a lot
alot of reasons.
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Ladybug, Ladybug
Ladybugs are not all females. There are males too,
like other beetles. Ladybugs fly, but they climb on plants
most of the time.
People with gardens are glad to see ladybugs.
Ladybugs eat aphids, tiny bugs that hurt plants by
drinking sap.
People like ladybugs for a lot
of reasons. The book
Ladybugology by Michael Elsohn
Ross tells about people who
thought these bugs brought
luck. In the past, they were
signs of weddings and good
weather. Now they are signs
of good gardens.
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This is like pictures in the
book What About Ladybugs?
by Celia Godkin.
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