Tulip Test Gardens
Update: October 11, 2007   

Today's Report Includes:

  • Maps and Highlights: >>
    • 17 and Counting
    • Latitude/Longitude: Think About It
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  • Monitor and Compare: >>
    • Comparing Spring 2008 to Years Before
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  • Explore: The Tulip Bulb >>
    • Bulbs as Tools (Booklet)
    • Create a Tulip Life Cycle
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  • Links: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources >>


Explore the tulip bulb from the inside out today >>

Please Report >>
After you Plant Your Garden

Maps and Highlights

17 and Counting
Gardeners are digging in! Our first 17 Journey North gardens have been planted. Take a look at this week's map. Be sure to report after you plant your garden.

It's time to polish up on your map reading skills. Do you see a pattern of gardens planted so far? What latitudes do they all lie between? Does weather affect when a garden is planted?
Today's Map: Tulips Planted
(Map|List)
  • Today's Data >>
  • Map Questions (Handout) >>
  • About Tulip Maps >>

Map Questions
(handout) >>

Latitude/Longitude: Think About It
Did you know that every place on the Earth has an address? Using this address you can learn how far north or south, east, or west any of the gardens in the study is compared to your own garden. What do you call these addresses?

LATITUDE (the lines circling the globe)
and
LONGITUDE (the lines running from pole to pole)

Try This: Test Your Skills
Study the latitude and longitude coordinates of 6 gardens already planted. Using your own garden coordinates, compare them to your location. Use these skills throughout the year to help you predict spring’s arrival around the Hemisphere. >>

Monitor and Compare

Comparing Spring 2008 to Years Before
Plants show us the effects of the climate around them. Your garden can give you clues for understanding our changing climate. Throughout the spring you can compare gardens with over 10 years of garden data and maps. Begin a local monitoring project now.


Find garden data from the Map Gallery page. >>
Explore: The Tulip Bulb

Read this hands-on booklet about the tulip bulbs you are getting ready to plant. Use easy-to-follow directions to print and fold the booklet, or watch a slideshow version.


Bulbs: Your Tools for Gauging Spring's Arrival


Try This! Create a Tulip Life Cycle


Every living organism has its own unique life cycle. The tulip you hold in your hand will continue to come alive year after year, completing the cycle of growth and dormancy many times over. 

Drag and drop pictures into the boxes to re-create the tulip life cycle. >>
Resources: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources
  • Observing Bulbs: From the Outside to the Mystery Inside Lessons and Journal pages >>
  • Going to Expremes: The Annual Microclimate Challenge >>
  • Soil Temperatures: Planning Your Own Investigations >>
  • Tulip Garden Journals (click-and-print) >>
More Journey North Lessons and Teaching Ideas!

The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on November 8, 2007.


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