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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.
NSTA Chicago Fast Plants Booth Resources
NSTA Chicago Fast Plants booth was no exception–our conference booth is always packed with living Fast Plants and related resources. If you visited our booth in Chicago, recently (2022), you likely met plant researcher and Brassica specialist, Dan Lauffer. In the booth, we featured the following and include related resources in this post: Life cycle: Living examples of key stages ...
Read MoreNew DIY Grow Lights for Fast Plants
Superior Grow Lights: Easy build your own What grow lights do I need for growing Fast Plants? That’s an important question. However, it also may be the start of a missed learning opportunity, if we’re not mindful. Consider for comparison your reaction when a student asks: “What do I need to know for the test?” Likely, your response includes hoping this ...
Read MoreEcosystem 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, using Fast Plants as a model organism in ...
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