Find a Partner Garden

Find a Partner Garden

How to Find a Partner through Journey North

There are more than 400 test gardens across the Northern Hemisphere. Students can choose a garden for study, and predict when the garden will emerge and bloom. Use the tulip map to find possible partners.

Tulip Map

Find a partner!

Sharing with Your Partners

Decide on Details
Which data will you collect and exchange? How often you will share it and how you will do it? Many partners share via video chats or simply through email. You might also exchange photos or drawings of some of your observations, such as how an "adopted" tree changes from month to month.

Secret Partners
Keep the partner locations a secret. Students can use seasonal clues to guess where their partners are located.

Organize and Interpret the Information

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 daylight.
Which seasonal changes are the same/different in both regions?
What patterns do we notice?

For Additional Activities

See: Global Climate: Exploring Factors That Affect Plant Growth