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Keep a Tulip Garden Journal
Exploring the Seasons

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Introduction
How can you help students collect and reflect on their experiences with the tulip garden project? Invite them to create personal journals. Build understanding and skills one page at a time. Journey North journal pages (see teacher support links, above) provide a workplace where students put wondrous questions, document discoveries, explore ever-changing events, and chronicle each step of their scientific journey.

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.

Print a cover for each student and a stack of journal pages. Journals can be stapled, bound, or kept in each students' pocket folder to pull out on "Journey North days."

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.

Explore the growing collection of pages to select the page that meets your curricular goals. Each page is designed to help students collect and reflect on information and data they find in Tulip Garden News Updates, Tulip Maps, Booklets/slideshows, and other Journey North Lessons and Resources.

NEW: Map Journal Pages from across the Northern Hemisphere are available. Each time you receive a Tulip Garden Update, students can use a map page to focus on highlighted gardens from across the Northern Hemisphere. (You can also have them ponder some core questions about the progress of spring.)
Gardens Across Northern Hemisphere: Journal Map Pages


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