How cold is the air temperature today? What's the soil temperature where the tulip bulbs are nestled underground? This week, take a closer look at temperatures and locations. Consider how the Northern Hemisphere's different temperatures might affect tulip growth this spring.

Today's Report Includes:

• Explore: Maps and Temperatures
  
• Explore: Temperatures in the Tulip Garden
• Spotlight: Stuart Island Tulip Garden
• Resources: Links to Explore

Across the Northern Hemisphere our tulip investigation now has over 350 gardens participating. Many more tulip bulbs come out of storage this week for planting in warmer climates. Keep your eye on your gardens and report when you see the first signs of bulbs emerging.

• This Week's Map Question Handout
  A valuable map becomes a prediction tool this week. Study this temperature map often as winter turns into spring.
  

Your bulbs are settled seven inches underground. It is now the darkest and probably the coldest time of the year. What's going on underground?
How do the temperatures underground compare with above ground? Are they the same?

Go outside and test your ideas using thermometers for the air and soil. Use a chart to record temperature predictions and actual temperatures.

• How will temperatures affect tulip emergence?
• Will tulip bulbs freeze if it gets too cold? Will they die?
• How warm does it need to be before tulips emerge?

Use your journal to track your ideas and predictions.

Imagine living and going to school on an island that is less than 3 square miles in size! Take a peek at a tulip garden location in a most unusual place.

Students from Stuart Island School live and go to school on an island in the San Juan islands in Washington. Learn more about them this week.

• Stuart Island School

One-room schoolhouse on Stuart Island, Washington

The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on February 3, 2011.

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