<p>Students learn about the timing of spring budburst, develop multiple working hypotheses about why timing differs year to year, and test hypotheses using environmental data collected by GLOBE students in Alaska to come to a conclusion about the factors that most impact timing of budburst on paper birch trees. **This activity has an option to get students analyzing data in spreadsheets.<br type="_moz"></p>
Categories
Atmosphere
Precipitation
Air Temperature
Surface Temperature
Green-Up / Green-Down
Phenological Gardens
Biosphere
Atmosphere and Climate
Land Cover/Biology
HS-ESS2-2
MS-ESS2-6
In Class Activity (1 or more periods)
1 period (approx. 45 min.)
LS: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
ESS: Weather and Climate
Life Sciences
Earth & Space Sciences
MS-LS1-5
Secondary: 9-12
Learning Activities
Middle: 6-8
English
