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Keep a Tulip Test Garden Journal

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As you embark on your scientific journey with the tulip test garden, inspire your students to think and act like scientists as they observe changes around them and in the garden. Invite them to create personal journals. Build understanding and skills one page at a time. Journey North journal pages (see teacher support links) provide a workplace where students put wondrous questions, document discoveries, explore ever-changing events, and chronicle each step of their scientific journey.

  • Print a cover for each student. Add your own blank pages or click and print from this collection of journal pages. You'll also find journal pages in many slideshows and activities.
  • Staple or bind journal pages or keep them in each students' pocket folder to pull out on "Journey North days.
Gardens Across Northern Hemisphere: Journal Map Pages

North America Gardens
Use this journal page with Tulip Garden News Updates

Europe Gardens
Use this journal page with Tulip Garden News Updates

Asia Gardens
Use this journal page with Tulip Garden News Updates
Week-by-Week Journal Pages for Map Analysis

Each weekly Tulip Garden Update includes a map/journal page with questions specific to that week's map or progression of the spring. Here are links to printable journal pages for each update:

  • Journal Page: February 4:
  • Journal Page: February 11:
  • Journal Page: February 18:
  • Journal Page: February 25:
  • Journal Page: March 4:
  • Journal Page: March 11:
  • Journal Page: March 18:
  • Journal Page: March 25:
  • Journal Page: April 1:
  • Journal Page: April 8:
  • Journal Page: April 15:
  • Journal Page: April 22:
  • Journal Page: April 29:
  • Journal Page: May 6:

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.
Have each student complete journal page, "Observing Seasons" page in late winter or spring when they first 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 about what will happen next.


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