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It’s the season of professional development conferences for teachers, educators, and our Fast Plants Team! Come visit our booths in the exhibit halls, they’re always packed with living Fast Plants, recommended resources, and good conversation. Jackson is attending NABT in Baltimore; Hedi and Dan are attending CAST in Houston and ACTE in Phoenix! This blog post summarizes what you’ll find …
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 …
Producing Fast Plants seed for investigations that need offspring generations Seed harvest is an essential step in any Fast Plants experimental design that involves gathering evidence from offspring plants that students produce themselves. For example, you may have students conduct an inheritance investigation in which they inter-mate Fast Plants from an F1 generation to produce and observe the F2 offspring. …
A plant’s transition from vegetative growth to reproductive/flowering growth is a complicated process. In order for a plant to complete its life cycle and produce viable seeds, flowering must occur under conditions that encourage seed production. Plants are able to detect a variety of internal and environmental signals that influence floral development. Internal signaling is via production and diffusion of …
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 …
Lesson planning with activities and experiments that involve a living, growing organism takes practice. It is important to consider the timing of when to plant Fast Plants seeds for optimal observation of the growing plants. Thankfully, when grown in standard classroom temperatures, Fast Plants stick pretty close to their predicted growth schedule. Frequently, we’re asked what day of the week …
Wisconsin Fast Plants were developed as research tool at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and have been used by K-16 teachers around the world for nearly 30 years as an educational model-organism.
