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Welcome to the Tulip Test Garden experiment! Temperatures over land and sea give us more clues this week about spring's arrival. What can we learn from ocean currents? Predict where and when the next tulips will emerge using the climate knowledge you've gained this spring. This week we have 2 Mystery Gardens. Can you find them?
Today's Report Includes:
- Maps: Thirty-two Gardens Emerged
- Explore: Weather this Week
- Journal Page: Predicting Spring's Arrival
- Solve: Mystery Gardens
- Report: Report Your Garden
- Getting Started: This Week's Tulip Garden Resources
Snow and cold continue to break records across the eastern half of the continent. Only a couple of newly emerged tulip gardens on the map this week. Spring seems to be on hold. We need to look to Europe to see one of the newly emerged gardens. If you live where big snow fell, be sure to keep an eye on the garden. Strong spring sunshine can quickly melt the snow to reveal emerging tulips!
Days are lengthening across the continent. How much daylight have you gained since the Winter Solstice?
- Find out: Sunrise/Sunset Lookup
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This Week's Map Questions (Handout) |
Lots of purples and blues on the weather map this week. These colors represent 7 to 9 degrees of departure from normal temperatures that occurred Feb. 7 - 13. Find your garden on the map and record the departure from normal temperatures for the week in your journal. How cold can emerging tulips get without sustaining damage? Think about this as you study our tulip test garden map this week. |
As the earth revolves around the sun in its annual cycle we experience seasonal change. Where will spring arrive first, and next? What kind of patterns will we see as the wave of spring progresses?
Use this week's Map Questions handout along with clues already on the map to help you predict where the next tulip gardens will emerge.
- Journal: Use the map and recording sheet for today's journal project
Print copies of the blank map and the Tulip Prediction Chart
This week we have two "Mystery Gardens." Can you find them?
Mystery
Garden #1:
One of a handful of schools who reported tulips emerged this week.
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Where are we? (Guess before peeking!)
# 1: Our global address is (40.83 N, 14.24 E). When it is 1 PM in New York City it is 7 PM here. Are we east or west of New York City? This is the 5th year we've planted a Tulip Test garden here. We live in a warm region so we had to put our tulip bulbs into the refrigerator then plant in early January.
- Where do you think we are? (Guess before peeking!)
# 2: Our global address is (44.45 N, -64.38 W). We are snowbound today (2/17/10) with schools all across the area cancelled. Our tulips are buried under about 20 cm (8 inches) of heavy snow. We are located 4 hours west of Greenwich, England. Our sunrise today was at 7:15 AM and sunset was at 5:49 PM.
- Can you find us with these clues?
Stay tuned: More clues for Mystery Garden #2 coming next week.
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- Explore: Satellite View of Ocean Temperatures
- Journal:
Predicting
the Greening of Spring
with Red Emperor Tulips - Mapping Spring Data: Lessons and Resources
- Questioning: Making Sense of Journey North Maps
- Helpful Weather Links: Climate Weather and Seasons
- Tulip
Garden Journals (click-and-print)
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