Exchanging Seasonal Data Finding and Sharing with a Partner Class Are the seasons changing in the same way throughout North America? Find out by pairing up with a partner class and exchanging Signs of Spring (or Fall) observations! How to Find a Partner Classroom (2 options): Find a partner school on your own. Contact teachers you know in other locations. Find a partner school through Journey North. Go to our Maps page and click on any map. Click on the map's "i" tool and then on any dot (report). From there, you can read about and e-mail the observer. If your teacher keeps the partner location secret, can you use seasonal clues to guess where your new friends are located? Sharing with Your Partners This is a self-directed project. Here are some suggestions for working with your partner: Decide on details. Which data will you collect and exchange? How often you will share it and how you will do it? For instance, you might fax, mail, or e-mail Signs of Fall checklists at the end of each month. You might also exchange photos or drawings of some of your observations, such as how an "adopted" tree changes from month to month. Think about how you'll organize and interpret the information. For instance, Create a chart and list observations/measurements that are the same in each area on a given date. Next list things that are different. What patterns do you see? Make a graph to show how average temperatures compare in the two locations. Do the same for photoperiod (the number of hours of sunlight). Ask these types of questions: * Which seasonal changes are the same in both regions and which are different? * What patterns do we notice? What do they "tell" us? * How does the timing of changes vary from place to place? * What do we predict will happen next in each location? * What can we learn about seasonal change from our data? * How do changes in day length and temperature seem to affect living things? This Season Teachers Kids Orientation Registration Search Copyright 1997-2009 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Questions or comments? Contact us.