{"id":3165,"date":"2011-04-14T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:52:10","slug":"lilacs-and-phenology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Lilacs and Phenology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5108\/5619794282_963e90d0a3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilac from KU&#39;s campus 4-14-11<\/p><\/div>\n<p>50 years\u00a0 ago when I was a kid every May basket had a sprig or two of lilac.\u00a0 You can almost smell the lilac in this photo.\u00a0 This photo was taken today.\u00a0 The lilacs have been blooming on campus all this week.\u00a0 There will not be many if any left blooming on May 1st.\u00a0 Lilacs are remarkably consistent in their response to climatic changes and thus can serve as a biological indicator of changing climate.\u00a0 Phenology is the study of seasonal changes of natural events such as pollen shedding, flowering times, chorus frog breeding and so on.\u00a0 It is a long term venture&#8211;perfectly suited for amateurs and biology classrooms.\u00a0 With today&#8217;s technology tools collaboration with researchers and other interested parties is more accessible than ever.\u00a0 This kind of collaboration is\u00a0 great way to add authentic science experiences to your classroom.\u00a0 Consider participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanpn.org\/home\">National Phenology Network<\/a>.\u00a0 Check out the cloned plant project at USANPN by planting various plants around your school grounds and monitoring developments throughout the year.\u00a0 You can even order the plants from these folks.\u00a0 The plants will serve dual purpose&#8212;beautifying the school grounds and providing fodder for student research.\u00a0 Oh, and they smell good.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the study of phenology and how your students can explore this area of science check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanpn.org\/files\/shared\/files\/Haggerty&amp;Mazer_ThePhenologyHandbook_v3Aug2009.pdf\">Phenology Handbook<\/a> available online.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5145\/5619794474_4afac363a4_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 years\u00a0 ago when I was a kid every May basket had a sprig or two of lilac.\u00a0 You can almost smell the lilac in this photo.\u00a0 This photo was taken today.\u00a0 The lilacs have been blooming on campus all this week.\u00a0 There will not be many if any left blooming on May 1st.\u00a0 Lilacs<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3165\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}