Back to This Week's Update What are your goals for the Tulip Test Garden Study? From Nova Scotia to Florida, and from kindergarten to high school, students of all ages and locations are planting tulip gardens in their own schoolyards this fall. How does such a diverse population of students define their goals? What kinds of things are students striving to experience and define? This month we ask ourselves questions about what it means to observe the wave of spring. We wonder what tulip garden maps tell us about seasonal change. And finally, what is the relationship between geography, temperature and the arrival of spring?