Tulip Garden Update: September 15, 2000 Today's Report Includes: Getting to Know You Thanks to Our Original Gardeners! Challenge Question #1 How to Report Your Garden to Journey North Fall Lessons Available on the WWW National Science Standards and Journey North Getting to Know You Anatomy of a Bulb Your tulip bulbs have arrived and you're about to bury them underground. But before you take your last look, maybe there are some important things you should know about them: Are all the bulbs in the class alike? How might their differences affect their growth rates? What do bulbs look like inside? Where will next spring's leaves and flowers come from? Your bulbs are the tools you're trusting to gauge spring's arrival. So get to know them before planting. This lesson shows you how to weigh, measure & learn the anatomy of your bulb before planting: Link to Lesson: Tulips as Tools to Gauge Spring's Arrival (Dissection & Observations) Thanks to the Original Journey North Gardeners! Special thanks to the 13 "Original Journey North Garden" sites for volunteering to carry on the tradition for another year. Because data are collected at these places year after year, we can compare spring's pace from one year to the next. We thank these schools who are making this possible: *Pending annual confirmation Original Site (Lat, Long) Gardeners Anchorage, Alaska (61.21 N, -149.86 W) Sand Lake Elementary Boston, Massachusetts (42.36 N, -71.05 W) Joyce Middle School Hood River, Oregon (45.57 N, -121.65 W) Westside Elementary Kingwood, Texas (29.75 N, -95.36 W) Hidden Hollow Elementary Bad Kreuznach, Germany (49.40 N, 7.700 E) Bad Kreuznach Elementary* Don Mills, Ontario (43.46 N, -79.25 W) Norman Ingram Elementary Murfreesboro, Tennessee (35.50 N, -86.23 W) McFadden Elementary Newport-on-Tay, Scotland (56.40 N, -3.00 W) Wormit Primary Palo Alto, California (37.44 N, -122.14 W) Barron Park Elementary Pequot Lakes, Minnesota (46.67 N, -94.24 W) Pequot Lakes School Salt Lake City, Utah (40.77 N -111.92 W) Eastwood Elementary Utsjoki, Finland (69.90 N, 26.00 E) Utsjoen saamelaislukio Bowie, Maryland (38.59 N, -76.45 W) Rockledge Elementary Challenge Question #1 "In what order do you think the 13 Original gardens will bloom next spring? List the 13 sites in order, from 1st to last." (To respond to this question, please follow the instructions at the end of this report.) Don't forget to report when you have PLANTED your Journey North Garden How to Report Your Garden As soon as you plant your tulip garden, be sure to let us know! In next month's update, we'll be reporting on the many new garden locations and we want to be sure that your garden is included. Simply press the "owl" button and a Field Data Form will appear. (From the same button, you can also "Go to the Sightings Database" and read comments from all gardeners.) Fall Tulip Garden Lessons The following lessons are available for fall activities in your classroom: How Do You Define Spring? (Take-Home Survey) Tulips as Tools (Dissection & Observations) A Matter of Degrees (Understanding Microclimates) Deciding Where to Plant the Garden (Planting Rubric) Replicating the Experiment (Take-Home Tulip Garden) Predicting the Arrival of Spring (Global Challenge) Phenology Data Exchange (Find Your Partner Using Nature's Clues) National Science Standards and Journey North We've prepared a rubric to summarize how the International Tulip Study's fall lessons support the standards (U.S.A. only) Link to Standards Rubric How to Respond to Today's Challenge Question: 1. Address an e-mail message to: jn-challenge-tulip@learner.org 2. In the Subject Line of your message write: Challenge Question # 1 3. In the body of the message, answer the Challenge Question. The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on October 13, 2000 Copyright 2000 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form