Just over a week ago my class' Journey North tulip garden began to poke through the snow in our garden bed. I love this project-based learning experience as my class is able to integrate science, writing, technology, and more with good old-fashioned gardening! The next benchmark will be when the tulips bloom. Then we can also dig up the accompanying time capsule that we buried nearby. Now if only there wasn't that pesky, predicted Nor'easter later this week. Let's hope these tulips are hardy!
Showing posts with label Emerged Tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emerged Tulips. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Day 88- Emerged
Just over a week ago my class' Journey North tulip garden began to poke through the snow in our garden bed. I love this project-based learning experience as my class is able to integrate science, writing, technology, and more with good old-fashioned gardening! The next benchmark will be when the tulips bloom. Then we can also dig up the accompanying time capsule that we buried nearby. Now if only there wasn't that pesky, predicted Nor'easter later this week. Let's hope these tulips are hardy!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Emerged Tulips
My second graders have a Journey North tulip garden. We planted Red Emperor tulip bulbs in the fall (along with other schools throughout the country and world). Then everybody waits for spring's arrival as the tulips first emerge, and then bloom. As you view the Journey North data, one can literally watch spring's "journey north". I have been doing this for over 6 years now. This is the earliest emergence, to be seconded only by the spring of 2006. Wacky weather!
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