Harmony Habitats
South Allegheny Elementary
Our garden was a success, but we also had some critter control problems that enabled us to try some Integrated Pest Management. Read about our experiement and see our pictures on the Journey North website.
Our Emperor Tulip Record
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Planted: November 2, 2009
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Emerged: March 8, 2010
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Bloomed : April 3, 2010
Daily News- Students Plant Tulip Test Garden
Tribune Review-Students Watch Winter Give Way to Spring
Journey North Feature
On November 2, 2009 the Harmony Habitats representatives planted 50 Red Emperor tulip bulbs to take part in an international science project called Journey North. We will connect, using the internet, with hundreds of schools in the Northern Hemisphere. We can be found on the map after we planted the bulbs. We will wait until spring and report when the bulbs emerge and bloom. This will plot the progression of spring throughout North America.
Ms. Aubrecht and Mrs. Kostik would like to thank Kathy Coberly, Rose Eckman, Vicki Underwood, Louella Pikras, and Jayme Klein for helping the children plant the test garden and all the other bulbs in the area.
Thanks also to Mark Zidak for preparing the flower bed around the rocks for our project.
Our class designed butterflies that will be sent to a school in Mexico near the overwintering site of the Monarch butterfly. This symbolic migration is a way for children to communicate with Mexican children and demonstate a migration similar to the real Monarch migration. Mexican children will mail back butterflies in the spring to parallel the beginning of the journey north.
