Phenology for May: A Reminder Today's Reminder Includes: Outdoor Observations for May >> Sunlight Through the Schoolyear >> Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts >> Phenology Resources to Explore >> It's either midnight or noon in this place in North America! Where is it? >> Outdoor Observations for May (and beyond!) What's happening here? You decide! Click to enlarge >> Photo: Wayne Kryduba Bumblebees buzzing, black flies biting, dragonflies darting, and feathered-friends flitting to nests! What clues tell you that spring has sprung in your hometown? This is the last Phenology Reminder for the schoolyear, so now you're on your own! Continue to go outside and look, smell, feel, and listen carefully. Draw and write about your observations. And don't stop when the schoolyear ends. Be sure to fill in your Phenology Checklist on June 21: the summer solstice. As you look back at your observations, share your data, or create a giant timeline, look for interesting patterns. Try to track the same types of observations — such as when your first hummingbird arrives — from year to year. That's how scientists discover new patterns in the natural world, and learn how our changing climate affects living things. Sunlight Through the Schoolyear: What's Happened? Have you been tracking sunrise and sunset times, daylength, or shadows in your hometown? What have you noticed? You might not see much from day to day, but sunlight has changed dramatically through the school year. Let's take a look! Imagine you're in space looking at Earth on the morning of May 1. >> [ How did the sun change? >> Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! >> Will you take a few minutes to complete our Year-end Evaluation? Only with your help can we document Journey North's reach, impact, and value. The information you provide is critical for planning new initiatives and for improving Journey North. Thank you! Year-end Evaluation >> Phenology Resources to Explore Spring Checklist: Grades K-3 >> Spring Checklist: Grades 4+ >> Student Journal: Signs of Spring >> Photo: Midnight or Noon? >> Share Your Observations: Post them on one of our migration maps or the "other signs of spring" map. Signs of Spring: Make a Giant Timeline! >> Share: Exchange Observations with a Partner! >> Teachers: Phenology and Journey North >> Assessment Tools: Reasons for Seasons >> Keep observations, drawings, and checklists in easy-to-print Signs of Spring journals. This is the final Phenology Update. Thanks for participating. Please join us again in September!

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