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226 A phenological atlas of plants PHENOLOGY AT SCHOOL You don’t have to be a part of an international project to carry out phenological observations at school. These could just be specific research activities within optional courses or school science projects. Close attention has lately been attached at Russian schools to pupils’ research projects. Supervised by their teachers, children come up with projects, formulate new and verify old hypotheses, stage experiments and report their results at school, learn to defend them at regional and national science festivals, often post them in the Internet. Phenological monitoring is well worth being chosen as a topic for school projects. Phenology doesn’t require sophisticated equipment, costly procure ments or special outfit. One just has to assign a route (called transect) around a school or nearby and mark out the plants to be monitored by pupils. Naturally, it w ill also take a checklist of species and the list of phenological phases, a log and perhaps also a section in the school’s website. Several theoretical and practical classes w ill be needed to ex plain the monitoring programme in detail. This book can also be used to this end. The onset and ending of principal phenophases should be Pupils participating in the project “Phenology of the North Calotte" present their teams. Nikel, 20 U