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Getting Started
How to Get Started: Orientation and Key Activities
Historic Maps and Data (Archives)
Journey North Gardens and the Seasons
Mapping Spring Tulip Garden Data
Predicting the Greening of Spring with Red Emperor Tulips
Track Seasonal Changes in Your Journey North Garden
(journal)
How Does Your Garden Grow? (Growth Chart)
What Tulips Need to Grow: Gathering Local Spring Tulip Data
Compare Your Garden with Partners in Other Locations
Does Spring Journey North? Following the Green Wave of Spring
Tulips and Temperatures: Is This a Normal Spring?
Observing Weather and Collecting Data
Tulip Bulbs: A Survival Tale
(
Slide Show
)
Our Tulip Bloomed Today: A Neighborhood Phenology Study
Latitude and Spring's Arrival
; An Ongoing Exploration
Journey North Teaching Tools
Related Lessons
Collecting Data Season after Season
What's Happening Underground? Taking the Soil's Temperature
Soil Temperatures: Planning Your Own Investigations
Risky Weather: Will Spring Tulips Survive?
How do Freezing Temperatures Affect Plants
What's Happening Here: A Closer Look at Leaf Pigments
They Days They Are a-Changing: Learning to Be Observers
Flowers on the Move: How Does it Help Them Survive?
Watch Closely: Observing Tulips Bloom
How Do You Define Spring?
Reasons for Seasons: Exploring the Astronomy of Spring
(full unit)
The Beauty of Botany: A Close Look at Tulip Flowers
Standards
Science
Math
JN for Kids Standards
Art and Observation Activities
Making Tulip Books: Creative Assessment for Elementary Students
Focusing with O'Keeffe on the Details: Art and the Unexpected Beauty of Nature
Tulips and Georgia O'Keeffe: One Classroom's Art
Looking for Details: Comparing Two Flowers
Tulip Models: Making Blooming Tulips in the Classroom
Did You Notice? Plants Surviving in Winter
Flip Books-Creating an Illusion of Time Passing in the Garden
Seasons and Cycles: Capturing Place and Time in Spring
Lebanon Lego Project: Using LEGO NXT robotics system to help monitor in the garden
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Background Information
About the Journey North Garden Study:
Photo Overview
About the Journey North Garden Study:
Video Clips
Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers for Journey North
Teacher Tips
Assessment Tools