Predicting the Greening of Spring
with Red Emperor Tulips

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National Science Education Standards
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Inquiry
  • Use data to conduct a reasonable explanation.
  • Think critically and logically to make relationships between evidence and explanations.

Life Science

  • Organisms have basic needs. They can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met.
  • Each plant or animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, reproduction.
  • All organisms must be able to obtain and use resources and grow in a constantly changing external environment.

National Geography Standards

  • How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.

National Math Standards

  • Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.