Tulip Test Gardens
Update: May 1, 2008 

Today's Report Includes:

  • Data, Maps, and Highlights >>
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  • Explore Botany: Tulip Flowers >>
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  • Spotlight on Gardeners: Altoona, PA >>
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  • Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts >>
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  • Links: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources >>

A Lily, or a Tulip?
BOTH!

Data, Maps, and Highlights:

Highlights: "We love the way they fold and unfold each day."
Gardeners in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, might have seen the first robins last week, but still no tulips emerging. Compare this garden in the Northwest with many gardeners in the Northeast who came back from spring vacations to find their tulip gardens in full bloom.
It's is May Day! Celebrate the spring flowers!

"Finally! Our tulips have emerged after being under many feet of snow. We are excited to see what they will become. Will they have purple pollen?" -Greenville, ME 04/23/08

"Watching the tulips grow from just little sprouts to huge blooming flowers was very exciting. We were very eager for them to bloom and love the way they fold and unfold each day." - Walthan, MA 04/22/08

  • This Week's Map >>
  • Data (for your map) >>
  • Handout: Making Sense of Tulip Garden Maps >>

This Week's Map >>
 This Week's Map Question Handout >>
Explore Botany: Tulip Flowers
Slideshow >>

All living things are classified into groups called families.

What family does the tulip belong in? To find out you have to start with the flower.


Study your own blooming tulip or study this picture >>

A Botany Lesson: Try This!

  • Look closely at a tulip flower.
  • Draw the flower (include all the flower parts you see).
  • Label the plant parts if you can.
  • After reading the botany lesson make any changes to your drawing.

Slide Show >>

Journal Question
Your tulip flower drawing shows specialized flower parts called anthers and stigma. These plants parts are very colorful and beautiful, but in science there’s always a WHY behind WHAT you see.

  • What purpose do the anthers and stigma have for tulip plants?

Write your response in your journal. Then see what we think >>
Spotlight on Gardeners

McAuliffe Heights at Irving Elementary, Altoona, PA
The tulip gardens at Irving Elementary were so beautiful. The tulips were in full bloom last week and the student gardeners all took a turn posing with the pretty red blooms.

  • Take a look at all the gardeners! >>

Excited gardeners proud of their tulip gardens >>
Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! >>

Will you take a few minutes to complete our Year-end Evaluation?

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Year-end Evaluation >
Resources: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources
  • Useful Assessment: Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers
    for Journey North >>
  • Taxonomy: What's in a Name, Tulip History and Taxonomy >>
  • 40 Best-Practice Instructional Activities >>
  • Reading and Writing Connections for Journey North >>
  • Helpful Weather Links: Climate Weather and Seasons >>
  • Tulip Garden Journals (click-and-print) >>
More Journey North Lessons and Teaching Ideas!

The Final Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on May 8 , 2008

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