Plant Tulips This Fall for Journey North

It's time to dig in! This fall, plant a Journey North Tulip Garden so you can proclaim the official arrival of spring in your community. By sharing observations over the Internet, students across North America will follow the wave of spring as it moves northward and measure its pace from distant places.

International Science Project
These tulips will be the focus of an international science project in which students investigate the relationship between geography, temperature and the arrival of spring. In the past, science students shared data with laboratory partners or maybe with a classroom of students. Using the Internet, these students will share their results with students across the continent.

Join The Fun!
This fall, hundreds of students will plant their gardens according to the same guidelines. Then they'll register their garden in Journey North's official Tulip Garden Registry. When the tulips bloom in the spring, the news will be shared with classmates across North America as part of the Journey North program.

How To Participate

Before Planting

• Predict the date tulips will bloom in your garden and at distant places.
  (See Predicting the Arrival of Spring .)

  Plant Your Garden
  

• Plant your tulips according to these instructions .

  After Planting
  

• Register for the Journey North program. Registration is free, but only registered schools may report news from their gardens.
  To REGISTER

• After registering, REPORT that your official garden has been planted.
  To REPORT

• Next spring, REPORT to Journey North when your tulips emerge and again when they bloom .
  To REPORT

News from Journey North gardens will be posted on Fridays from February until June, 1997. You'll be able to chart spring's journey across North America to your own backyard!

If you have questions about this project contact Journey North at: jnorth@learner.org

© Journey North 1996