Tulip Lessons Project Overview: Students explore seasonal change by watching plant growth in their own gardens--and in gardens across the hemisphere. FALL WINTER SPRING VIDEO CLIPS Fall Lessons Journey North Tulip Booklets for Kids Background Lessons for Journey North   Look up Your Own Records: Your Own Tulip Records   Standards Math Science Understanding Microclimates: Thinking About YOUR Garden Deciding Where to Plant the Garden (Planting Rubric) Volunteers Needed! Journey North Gardens in Every Capital City "Click on Capital City Garden" Quiz Capital Cities for U.S. States and Canadian Provinces Old Bulbs, New Tricks (Experiments With Last Year's Bulbs) Predicting the Arrival of Spring (Global Challenge) What if...? Time to Experiment Tulips as Tools (Dissection & Observations) Planting Your JN Tulip Garden: All in a Morning's Work! Replicating the Experiment (Take-Home Tulip Garden) Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers for Journey North Phenology Data Exchange (Find Your Partner Using Nature's Clues) Mapping Suggestions for Fall Tulip Data Tasty But Treated - BEWARE! Reasons for the Seasons: Exploring the Astronomy of Spring My Native Plant Field Guide Seasons and Cycles: Plants as Metaphors for Growth and Change Seasons and Cycles: Collector's Corner - A Seasonal Display Data Recorders for your Research Questions Temperature Experiments: Starting with a Good Question Setting Up a Temperature Recorder in the Garden Winter Lessons Predicting the Greening of Spring with Red Emperor Tulips (mapping) Seasons and Cycles:Celebrate the Solstice Make a Map for Tracking Spring Seasons and Cycles: Indoor Bulb Experiments Hurrying Spring: How to Force Bulbs in Your Classroom Tulips & Temperatures Underground Microclimate Celery Experiment What's In a Name: Tulip History and Taxonomy Out of Sight Out of Mind: What Happens Underground Learn More About Snow: Resources and Facts Snow Blankets the Earth: Learning from Snow Day Activities Hobos in the Garden: Reading Temperature Graphs Spring Lessons Wild Wisdom of Native Plants: Names and Stories How Plants Grow: Auxin's Not a Toxin Beautiful Leaves Contribute Form and Function A Botanist's View: Cousins of the Tulip Plant Spring Fever (Backyard Temperatures & Plant Growth) How Does Your Garden Grow? (Growth Chart) Spring's Journey North? (Mapping the Green Wave of Spring) The Language of Looking Closely (Observing and Describing) Focusing with O'Keeffe on the Details: Art and the Unexpected Beauty of Nature Tulips and Georgia O'Keeffe: One Classroom's Art Sun Power:Graphing the Sun's Power Flip Books-Creating an Illusion of Time Passing in the Garden Reasons for Seasons: Exploring the Astronomy of Spring The Days, They are A-changing: Learning to be Observers Don't Come Closer: How Plants Protect their Space What Does Blooming Mean to a Tulip: A Journey into Inquiry Spontaneous Generation? Discovery of a New World of Life Forms Emergence Early or Late? What's the Range, Median and Mean? (Student worksheet included.) Cryogenics and Cryology: A Cool Experiment Seasons and Cycles: Place and Time in Spring Collecting Data Season after Season Tulip Video Clips Tulip Project Overview: Students explore seasonal change by watching plant growth in their own gardens--and in gardens across the hemisphere. Student Inquiry: This study supports scientific observations, data collection, and student-directed inquiry. The Experimental Garden: Experimental garden plots can help students answer their own questions. The Art of Prediction: Predictions are an important part of the inquiry process. Reporting for Your Garden: When tulips finally emerge and bloom students announce that spring has arrived in their part of the world. Tips for Viewing Video Clips   Copyright 2005 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form