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Update:
February 21, 2008 |
Today's Report Includes:
- Data
Only and a New Map >>
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- Gardeners'
Comments >>
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Explore: Winter Plant Observations
- Try
This! The Outdoor
Classroom >>
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- Links: This
Week's Tulip Garden Resources >>
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What? Leaves in Winter? Discover >> |
Data
and Maps |
Jumping
Up and Down for Green Shoots!
Things
are greening up! We now have 74 gardens emerging out of 425 planted.
What percent have emerged? As temperatures rise and fall across the
continent
what
kind of patterns do you see?
This week tulips made an appearance in Arlington, VA. Students reported, "Our
tulips are growing. We see very little green shoots. When we saw them we jumped
up and down and said 'Our tulips are here!" 2/15
Arlington,
VA
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Handout: Making
Sense of Tulip Garden Maps >>
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This
Week's Map Question Handout >> |
Mapping
Spring Data: Lessons and Resources >> |
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Gardeners'
Comments |
Gardeners
comment about the weather this week:
- "It
has been really hot here for February but today it is FREEZING! We
all hope our tulips will survive the cold and howling winds." - Lilburn,
GA 02/13/08
- Blooming
Tulips in Texas: "60 degrees F Soil temp 15 C. Earlier this month
it was 72 and the soil temp 20 C. Temps are up and down. - Houston,
TX 02/18/08
- "We
think they have emerged about a week ago. Our weather here has gone
from 20s-30s to mid 40s and even 50 degrees in the sunshine." - Edmunds,
WA 02/20/08
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Explore:
Winter Plant Observations |
What's different outdoors in the winter than in the fall or summer? |
Whether
you live in Alaska or Florida, the natural world changes come winter.
While you're pondering just what your tulips are up to underground,
why not uncover what's happening to other plants this time of year?
How do they survive the season?
Try
This! The Outdoor Classroom
Go outside and choose one or more plants in addition to your tulips, to observe
this winter and spring. Draw the plants and take notes about what you see
as spring arrives.
- Print
this handout >>
- Lesson ideas >>
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Resources:
This Week's Tulip Garden Resources |
- Lesson:
Mapping the Green Wave of Spring >>
- Lesson
(ongoing): The Days are A-changing: Learning to be seasonal
observers >>
- 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 February 28, 2008
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