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Build a Learning Resource is a web-based interface that allows you to search and select Fast Plant materials and construct your own learning resource to print and use with your students. |
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Fast Plant® Activities
Teachers and learners use Fast Plants® in classrooms from kindergarten through college and beyond. Learners of all ages can explore a wide variety of questions with Fast Plants® and learn by engaging in genuine scientific inquiry.
Learners find the excitement of growing a real, living plant is irresistible. Fast Plants® change visibly every single day, right in front of your eyes. In two short weeks, the tiny seeds will sprout, grow, and bloom. In just over a month, learners can plant seeds, tend plants, pollinate flowers, and harvest new seeds.
| If you are new to Wisconsin Fast Plants® you may find the following resources are a good place to start! |
| The Seed Challenge - `How many seeds can you get from a single seed? Download a 23-page PDF file with this complete activity (644 KB).
A kit for a class of 32 students, containing the seeds and planting materials is also available for this activity. Alternatively, you can grow seeds from a packet of Standard Wisconsin Fast Plants® seeds (or seeds from Fast Plants you grow yourself) and your own potting mix and growing system. Either way, you'll need to plan for providing adequate light. Learn about all these factors in the How to Grow files on this website.
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| Growth, Development and Reproduction -- Exploring and explaining germination, growth and development, flowering, pollination, fertilization and seed development with Wisconsin Fast Plants® Download PDF file (1.3 MB).
Download this 32-page booklet, containing complete instructions for activities at each life cycle stage. The booklet also includes important background information about plant physiology and how to grow Fast Plants®.
A Growth, Development and Reproduction kit is available. You can also conduct all the investigations explained in the booklet using seeds from a packet of Standard Wisconsin Fast Plants® seeds (or seeds from Fast Plants you grow yourself) and your own potting mix and growing system. Either way, you'll need to plan for providing adequate light. Learn about all these factors in the How to Grow files on this website.
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