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    Grow Fast Plants

    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.

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Lessons & Investigations

Find learning materials and classroom activities to use for all ages.

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08/24/2023

Teach inheritance with Fast Plants – Where to start?

Are you just deciding how to start to teach inheritance patterns with Fast Plants?  Or maybe you’ve used Fast Plants before and are ready to add another layer to your inheritance investigations. Because we have so many resources available, choosing where to start can be a bit daunting. So, in this post we guide you through the decision making process and link ...

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05/03/2023

Digital Library of Fast Plants Resources

We are proud to announce a revision and upgrade to our Fast Plants Digital Library! In our more than 35 years serving teachers and researchers, the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program has always been dedicated to creating free, open source resources for using Fast Plants effectively as a model organism. The recently completed upgrade to our library allows us to make ...

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04/04/2023

Dihybrid Inheritance Study Using Wisconsin Fast Plants – Open Source Educator Resources

Blog Post Sections Announcing Dihybrid Inheritance Study Teaching Tool Study and Resource Overview Dihybrid Inheritance versus Monohybrid Inheritance Patterns: Which to Choose? Identifying Traits Rosette-Dwarf and Anthocyaninless (Non-Purple) Study Timeline Learn More and Access Resources Announcing Dihybrid Inheritance Study Teaching Tool The Wisconsin Fast Plants team is proud to announce the release of a set of resources to support teaching ...

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