 It
was the brainstorm of 2nd grade teacher, Cindy Krone to introduce the Journey North project to the garden program. School
children in all 50 U.S. States and 7 Canadian Provinces are tracking
the arrival of spring by planting the same variety of tulip at the
same depth in their school yards. As they see signs of the tulips emerging
and then blooming they make regular reports to Journey North who makes
the information available on the website. The project is much
more than just planting lots of tulips and the learning opportunities
are numerous and not limited to tulips.
Mrs. Krone is the driving force and her class will be doing most
of the participation the first year. Thanks to the generosity of the
Hilton Garden Inn we were able to invite all of the 2nd grade classes to
participate in planting the bulbs in the test bed. The Hilton
purchased 600 Red Emperor tulip bulbs, 100 of which were planted at the
Hilton Inn at the Wards corner exit of I-275. Mrs. Krone's class
made a field trip to the inn on a rainy Monday early in November to plant
the tulips, making sure to plant them the correct depth. The Hilton
is now a part of the study. |
