Update: May 5, 2011	Please report:
It's celebration time in Hines Creek, Alberta where their tulips have emerged. Review and enjoy the arrival of spring week-by-week with animated Test Garden maps. Show what you have learned this year with assessment projects and tools to help you organize. Enjoy one last view of the garden from a unique perspective. Finally, share your thoughts with our Annual Evaluation. Today's Report Includes: Maps, Questions, and Highlights Explore: What Did I Learn? Spotlight: Tulip Point of View Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts!	Image of the Week
	Spring Weather and the Test Garden Brrrrr.......
Maps, Questions, and Highlights
Highlights: Our Experiments What did you learn from your experimental gardens? "Three of our control tulips bloomed today. Also, most of our experiments have also come up. Still waiting to see what will happen to the bulbs that we planted upside down," report students from Brattleboro, Vermont (04/28/11) Garlic powder saves the day. When tulips started growing in Vernon, New Jersey, they were visited by rabbits or deer who nibbled on them. Spreading garlic powder seemed to help keep them away and May 2nd brought beautiful red blooms. Alaska garden blooms! Emerging tulips in Haines were covered with snow, but continued to grow as snow melted away. On April 29th, the tulips with their frost-bit damaged leaves bloomed! It is time to celebrate spring at Hines Creek Composite School! They reported this week, "We have only one tulip emerged - we are anxiously awaiting more. Nearly all the snow is gone - only the giant piles have little bits left and snow on the north side of hills is still around." —Hines Creek, Alberta (05/02/11) In the Canadian interior spring has arrived! See all the New Garden Highlights The map is almost completed for the spring of 2011. We are still waiting for a few gardens, so continue to report! Journey North collects your observations 24/7! map/sightings (North America) map/sightings (Eurasia) This Week's Map Questions Handout
Explore: What Did I Learn?
The Test Garden project offers so much to participants. Like actual scientists, you have made predictions, interpreted maps, read and discussed slideshows, responded to journal and map questions, asked your own questions, and dug into lessons and handouts. How can you show what you have learned? Try creating a portfolio, an advertisement, or a display. Students: Create a Portfolio! Teachers: More Assessment Tools	Create a Portfolio
Spotlight: Tulip Point of View
A Resource to the End: At the Lake Forest Country Day School students are taking advantage of the Test Garden investigation with observation and art. "Our tulips finally bloomed! We have over thirty tulips in our garden. We went outside and we saw our beautiful tulips. They are red with yellow and black inside. We watercolored pictures of the tulips. It was fun!" Enjoy one last view of the garden from a unique perspective. A tulip's point of view	A Tulip's Point of View What If...
Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
Will you take a few minutes to complete our Annual Evaluation? With your help, we can document Journey North's reach, impact and value. We need comments like yours to keep the program going and growing. Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
More Journey North Lessons and Teaching Ideas!
This is the Final Tulip Garden Update for Spring, 2011. Join us again this Fall!     Copyright 1997-2011 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Questions or comments? Contact us.