Tulip Garden Update: September 8, 2006
Today's Report Includes:
- Getting
Started: What’s It All About?
- Extra, Extra, Read All About It
- Plant, Observe, Share, and Track
- Why Tulips? Why Not Native Plants?
- It's Time to Dig In: Choosing Your Garden Site
- How to Report to Journey North
- Coming Next Month
- Teachers’ Guide for September 8, 2006
Getting Started: What’s It All About?
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Read this hands-on, easy entry booklet about the Journey North tulip project. Print, fold and read it with easy to follow directions, or read from a slide show on the Web.
When Does Spring Reach Your Hometown?
Print-and-Fold Instructions for
Booklet Assembly
Plant,
Observe, Share, and Track
Explore plant growth and seasonal change with a flower that symbolizes spring.
Observe how sunlight drives seasonal plant growth in your garden. Share data
from your own garden and track spring across the Northern Hemisphere.
Journey
North: Plants and the Seasons (video)
Why Tulips? Why Not Native Plants?
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The
Red Emperor tulip proclaims springtime for this scientific experiment.
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Red Emperor is the plant (tulip variety) that we chose for our international science project. Why do you think we chose tulips? (Ask before reading on!)
We needed a plant that would grow across the entire Northern Hemisphere or world, to be part of our scientific experiment. The problem is that there are no species of native plants that will grow across this vast region. So, we chose the tulip - not native to most of the world but easily available - to demonstrate plant response to the changing seasons.
Time to Dig In: Choosing Your Garden Site
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How
do temperatures around your school yard compare?
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Your tulips will announce the arrival of spring in your community. You need to decide where to plant them. What do plants need to survive? What factors might affect the growing tulips? Where can you plant them to represent your climate? Remember this is a BIG experiment and everyone has to follow the same steps for finding their garden site.
Deciding
Where to Plant
To help you choose your site, go out and explore the schoolyard climate. Find
North, South, East and West on a compass or GPS. How might the direction your
garden faces affect plant growth? Try some activities to help you explore your
school yard and
checklists to
help you decide what spot best represents YOUR climate.
- Deciding Where to Plant your Journey North Garden >>
How to Report to Journey North
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The
Owl button
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Simply press the "Owl" button, enter your registration email address and report from your garden planted. Wait 5 minutes then refresh the map page to see your site pop up on the map.
Never reported before? Try a Practice Report first. >>
Coming Next Month:
Your bulbs have arrived and you are about to bury them underground. Do all the bulbs look alike? Will each one grow the same? We’ll look closer at these specialized plants on October 6.
Teachers' Guide
The suggestions in this guide are provided to help teachers integrate Journey North's program in the classroom.
The
Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on October 6, 2006.
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