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Everything you need to know about growing fast plants.
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Seed Varieties
Find the seed type that is best suited for your learning opportunity.
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Lessons & Investigations
Classroom activities and guides for helping you plan your lessons.
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Origin of Fast Plants
Learn about the history and creation of fast plants.
The Life Cycle of Fast Plants®
The life cycle for Fast Plants is extremely short; under ideal growing conditions of continuous light, water and nutrition, plants will produce harvestable seeds approximately 40 days after planting.
Lessons & Investigations
Find learning materials and classroom activities to use for all ages.
Counting Leaf Hairs on Fast Plants for Selection Experiments
Hairs are not often a trait that we associate with plants. However, of all the traits that students might observe in a population of Fast Plants, we can learn a lot about variation and natural selection by counting and selecting for the number of hairs on a leaf margin. Selective breeding to increase (or decrease) hairiness can provide an excellent opportunity ...
Read More2017 National Science Teachers Association Conference
NSTA 2017 in Los Angeles Thank you–everyone–who came to share and learn with us at our booth in the exhibit hall of the LA Convention Center and at the Elementary Extravaganza. We had a blast! The following is the handout from our booth with hyperlinks to the resources. Please feel free to comment with any additional links you’d like help ...
Read MoreTeaching with the Fast Plants life cycle
Life Cycle Investigations Life cycle investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants® provide rich context for teaching and learning a broad range of concepts. Though some think of the plant life cycle as limited to elementary level lessons, investigations and observations made during the Fast Plants life cycle are used worldwide at middle, high school and college levels, too. Crosscutting Concepts and life cycles Try to ...
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