Tulip Garden Update: November 5, 2004
Today's Report Includes:
- Gardeners Digging In!
- “Gardens in Every Capital City” News
- Study Guides for the Capitals
- YOU CAN Predict the Future! Capital Garden Emerge Dates
- Challenge Question #4
- Another Just-for-Kids Booklet: Bulbs as Tools for Spring’s Arrival
- Teacher Tip!
- Cold Conditions Give Clues to Challenge Question #2
- Where is Council Elementary School?
- How
to Report to Journey North
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106
gardens planted so far this year. When will we see yours? |
Since last month’s report a whopping 73 new gardens have been planted!
You can read all the wonderful comments these gardeners have sent (press the "owl button" and follow instructions). So far 106 gardens have been planted in total, with more to go into the ground in January! Hurry and plant your garden so it will be on the final map published in the next Update Dec. 3.
- Link to
Tulips Planted
“Gardens in Every Capital City” News
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Capital
cities for USA as of Nov. 5 |
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Capital
cities for Canada |
The
capitals will be blooming this spring! Thank you for your overwhelming
response to our request for volunteers.
Take a look at our map and you will see the capitals already participating,
AND where we need more volunteers. What a great way to learn the capitals
AND watch the greening of spring as it advances across North America.
We are happy to announce that we now have gardens in 26 North American capitals. Who has volunteered so far? Classrooms, a youth leadership group, young master gardener group, nephews, grandmothers, sisters, home-schools and teacher friends have all joined in this effort.
Do you know a friend, a grandparent, or a relative who lives in a capital city? Please ask if they'd be willing to participate. We will send a dozen Red Emperor bulbs for their capital city garden.
Contact us when you have an eager gardener ready to plant! (mhosier@jnorth.org)
- Re-visit the Project: Capital City Gardens
Study Guides for the Capitals
Use the maps and locate all the capital cities. Bookmark this list of cities. states and provinces. Then print your own study sheets!
YOU CAN Predict the Future! Capital Garden Emerge Dates
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Tulips
emerging- a definite sign of spring! |
Think about spring’s arrives across the continent. Brainstorm questions to help you decide which capital city tulips will be first and last to emerge.
- What might influence the warming up of the land mass?
- Do the bodies of water affect it?
- What geographical features influence the coming of spring?
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image for the Journey North Archives |
Do some extra research. Use an atlas to help you, or use the Journey North archives for clues from previous year’s records. Then try this challenge:
Challenge Question #4:
“Which capital’s tulip garden do you predict will emerge first and which will emerge last? When do you predict your state capital garden will emerge?”
(To respond to this question, please follow the instructions below.)
Another Just-for-Kids Booklet: Bulbs as Tools for Spring’s Arrival
Young scientists explore the concepts of bulb anatomy and physiology using the tulip bulb they will be planting in this investigative booklet that is just for them.
Print out your own copies of this booklet to read and use as you explore YOUR tulip bulbs. These amazingly neat little packages contain all parts of the tulip plant and keep them safe from cold and drought.
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Assembling the printable "PDF" booklet is easy to do. Try making them with your students as an exercise in listening and following directions. Use this quick, easy project for introducing the study, building reading skills and supporting standards.
Bulbs: Your Tools for Gauging Spring’s Arrival |
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Teacher Tip: Full-sized Lesson on the Journey North Web Site
Now, visit a full-sized lesson to help you organize this investigation with more detailed descriptions and printable charts to help. National Science Education Standards are included to assist you with your curriculum planning.
Cold Conditions Give Clues to Challenge Question #2
“The capital cities of the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territory (including Nunavut) are represented on the map, but these cities may not participate in this garden project. Can you tell us why?”
Students pulled together their knowledge of climate, geography and population density to get to the root of this question.
One answer was sent in by a very clever 6-year old from PA:
“I think the ground is already frozen, so they cannot plant tulips this year. Also it would be hard to find people who want to plant tulips because not many people live there.”
Another group of 5th Graders from Blanchard Memorial School used knowledge of weather and geography to answer this question:
“We think that no gardens will be planted in Nunavut, Canada and the Northwestern Territories because it is too cold. The tulips need warmth to grow and it probably snows a lot there, so the tulips will not have enough heat to survive. It is cold there because they don't get the direct heat from the sun. Since the tulips would not grow there would be no point in planting them.”
Where is Council Elementary School?
Students in Council, Idaho are busy planting tulips to participate in another year of the Tulip Garden Study. Judy Huter shared this news along with pictures to share.
”We had a perfect window for planting the bulbs. The next day we received a very nice rain. SADD (Students against destructive decisions) also planted red bulbs for one of their projects. We will have a beautiful spring next year.”
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Planting
in Council, ID |
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Can you locate Council? Here is a clue: Latitude = (44.95N), Longitude = (116.59W).
How to Report to Journey North
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Simply press the "Owl" button to report from your site.Wait 5 minutes then refresh the map page to see your site pop up on the map. (From the same button, you can also "Go to the Sightings Database" and read comments from all gardeners.)
How to Respond to Today's Challenge Question
IMPORTANT: Answer only ONE question in each e-mail message.
1. Address
an e-mail message to: jn-challenge-tulip@learner.org
2. In the Subject Line of your message write: Challenge Question #4.
3. In the body of the message, answer ONE of the questions above.
The Next Tulip Garden Update Will be Posted on December 3, 2004.
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2004 Journey North. All Rights Reserved.
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