Journey North's Study of Plants, Climates, and the Seasons

Introduction
How can you help students collect and reflect on their experiences with the tulip garden project? Invite them to create personal journals. Build understanding and skills one page at a time. Journey North journal pages (see teacher support links, above) provide a workplace where students put wondrous questions, document discoveries, explore ever-changing events, and chronicle each step of their scientific journey.

Teaching Suggestions
Use these journal pages the way we designed them, or customize to meet the needs of your students. Just click to download, open through your Word application, and print! Or edit to enter your own questions, categories, or layout.

Print a cover for each student and a stack of journal pages. Journals can be stapled, bound, or kept in each students' pocket folder to pull out on "Journey North days."

When you first plant your garden in the fall, have each student complete an "Observing Seasons" page. In late winter or spring, as they look for changes in their garden, they should complete a new page every week or two. As they do, help them use their observations (evidence) to refine their predictions.