Tulip Garden Update: March 10, 2006

Today's "Data Only" Update Includes:

• This Week’s Map and Data

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Can you use your imagination to put the canadian map over the U.S. map?

Just a quick update today to give you the latest data for your map. We have 31 MORE gardens reporting emerging tulips and 4 more RED dots on this week’s tulip map!
Take a close look at YOUR garden. In Westbury, NY, 2nd graders are watching their little emerging tulips. They wrote, “They look reddish and are shaped like a castle tower with a tip.”

• This Week's Data (Reported March 4-10, 2006)

Make your own map or print ours.
Choose a state where the next tulip garden will bloom…

...and come back next week to see what happens!

Now let's study these winter temperature maps (Nov.- Jan, 2006) for a minute...

• Locate your garden on the map. How many degrees warmer/colder than normal was it during the winter (Nov. – Jan.)?
• The scale is different for the 2 maps, but can you fit Canada north of the U.S.?
• Will the past winter's temperatures affect WHEN spring arrives in your garden? What do you predict?

The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on March 17, 2006.

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