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From: jb@inet-serv.com (Julie  Brophy)
Subject: Plant Tulips This Fall for Journey North

Please Forward This Notice to Your K-12 Colleagues

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Plant Tulips This Fall for Journey North

It's time to dig in! This fall, plant a Journey North Tulip Garden
so you can proclaim the official arrival of spring in your
community.  By sharing observations over the Internet, students
across North America will follow the wave of spring as it moves
northward and measure its pace from distant places.

International Science Project
These tulips will be the focus of an international science project
in which students investigate the relationship between geography,
temperature and the arrival of spring.  In the past, science
students shared data with laboratory partners or maybe with a
classroom of students.  Using the Internet, these students will
share their results with students across the continent.

Join The Fun!
This fall, hundreds of students will plant their gardens according
to the same guidelines. Then they'll register their garden in
Journey North's official Tulip Garden Registry. When the tulips
bloom in the spring, the news will be shared with classmates across
North America as part of the Journey North program.

How To Participate

For planting instructions and more information:

  *  Visit Journey North on the WWW at: http://www.learner.org/k12

  *  Or send e-mail to:  jnorth@learner.org

At the end of the planting season in early December, we will post a
list of all official Journey North gardens.  You can then contact a
partner school and exchange predictions and data. Next spring, news
from Journey North gardens will be posted on Fridays from February
until June, 1997.  You'll be able to chart spring's journey across
North America to your own backyard.

Happy Planting!

More About Journey North
This project is part of Journey North, an Internet-based science
education program in which students track migration and other signs
of spring over the Internet. As the spring season sweeps across the
continent, students track the journeys of a dozen migratory species
including monarch butterflies, robins, eagles, whales, and others.

Linked to classrooms from the tropics to the tundra, students
conduct interactive, comparative studies of the natural world.  In
addition to following migrations, they observe the local emergence
of spring through studies of changing day length, temperatures and
other spring events. Together students gather, organize and analyze
their own data about familiar, local natural phenomena. Students
then view their local observations in a global context--essentially
seeing how their small part of the world fits into large natural
systems.

The 1997 Journey North program will begin on February 2, 1997. For
mre information contact:  jnorth@learner.org