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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.
Ecosystem dynamics investigations
Why hands-on ecosystem investigations? Ecosystems are highly complex systems; how can we support learners to grasp the affects on populations when one component of an ecosystem changes? Using a model ecosystem and model population in a hands-on investigation is an effective teaching strategy. In addition to making abstract ecosystem concepts more concrete, this investigation supports learning about systems and systems modeling in science–one ...
Read MorePreservice teachers on the frontline in ending plant blindness
Preservice teacher learners become effective teachers of science by developing strong content and content pedagogy knowledge that support all learners. In other words, the learning arc for preservice teacher learners is multilayered and jam-packed! So, it’s a tall order to hope that future teachers of science–elementary and secondary–are the solution to our national epidemic of plant blindness. “Plant blindness” may ...
Read MoreHands-on learning with Fast Plants grows minds-on learning
While occupied by hands-on Fast Plants tending tasks in my role as co-director of the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program, I often listen to podcasts. Spoiler alert: I love podcasts about plants! No surprise, one of my favorites is Matt Candeias’ podcast, In Defense of Plants. Beyond my fascination with the wide array of topics Matt dives into in his podcasts, I appreciate ...
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