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| Update: April
6,
2007 |
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Today's Report Includes:
- Data
Only and a New Map >>
- Explore: A
Garden Where the Future is Now >>
- Journal
Question: The Power of Description >>
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Links: Tulip
Garden Resources >>
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Featured Classroom:
Lebanon, OR
Students with their LEGO
NXT
robotics system.
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| Data
Only and a New Map |
Highlights:
Springtime weather is coming in fits and starts across
the northern latitudes. Gardeners who were cheering on their tulip
gardens are suddenly worried about the weather.
In Minocqua, WI gardeners wrote, “Three tulips emerged in
our garden this week but a winter storm is on its way. It's supposed
to bring 4-8 inches of snow and lows in the teens for the next
five nights!”
How many gardens are stuck in the cold (and snow)?
(Look
and discuss >>)
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Click for large map |
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-
Slideshow (Week-by-week
animation) >>
- Map
Questions Handout (Click
and print) >>
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| Explore! A
Garden Where the Future is Now |
Read About
It! >> |
This week we will visit
a special garden at Seven Oak Middle School, in Lebanon, Oregon. Science
students have experimented with some very creative technology. Here is
their report to Journey North:
Robotic Remote Sensing Vehicle
“This year, two students in our class, Sierra and
Gabrielle, wanted to figure out a way to raise student awareness
about the importance of water conservation at our school and
in our community. Using their experience with the LEGO NXT robotics
system, they developed, built, and programmed a LEGO NXT remote
sensing vehicle that operates in our school Journey North garden.”
(More about their project >>) |
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| Journal
Question: The
Power of Description |
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you had to describe today’s tulip map to someone who couldn't
see it. Could you describe where spring’s
temperatures have arrived and where they are yet to come?
Try This!
- First
write the description in your Journal.
- Next,
share it with a classmate.
- Third,
combine the best of both descriptions for your final copy and share
it with the class.
Use your
Tulip Garden Journal >>
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| Resources:
This Week's Tulip Garden Resources |
- Observation:
The
Days, They are A-changing >>
- Slideshow: Tulip
Bulbs: A Survival Tale >>
- Helpful
Weather Links: Climate
Weather and Seasons >>
- Tulip
Garden Journals (click-and-print) >>
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The
Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on April 13, 2006.
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