Lessons & Investigation

Activities for lesson planning and more.

Elementary Lessons

Growing Wisconsin Fast Plants is engaging and educational for learners of ALL ages and grade levels. These recommended resources are great for getting started with Fast Plants. You’ll find many, many more resources in our Digital Library, too.

Elementary

Beeing an Engineer

Lesson Plans 

Learners gather evidence for explaining that Fast Plants—like other organisms—have a life cycle that includes “birth” or germination, growth, reproduction, and death. Use with Standard Fast Plants Seeds

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  • Wisconsin Fast Plants® Elementary Exploration of Plant Life Cycles

    Complete Kit

    Learners explore the relationship between the needs of plants and the places they live, while observing plant structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

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  • Elementary

    Reading Green™: Investigating the Life Cycle and Growth of Flowering Plants Kit

    Lesson Plans 

    Learners explore the relationship between the needs of plants and the places they live, while observing plant structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

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    Middle School Lessons

    Growing Wisconsin Fast Plants is engaging and educational for learners of ALL ages and grade levels. These recommended resources are great for getting started with Fast Plants. You’ll find many, many more resources in our Digital Library, too.

    Brassicas Around the World Open Source Lesson

    Investigating Brassicas Around the World with Wisconsin Fast Plants®

    Open Source Lesson Plan Folder

    Learners construct a scientific explanation based on evidence to answer the investigation’s phenomenon question: “How is it that so many plants classified as Brassica look and taste different?”

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  • Wisconsin Fast Plants® Growth, Development, and Reproduction Advanced Student Kit

    Complete Kit

    Learners gather evidence and use scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction.

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  • Elementary

    Wisconsin Fast Plants® 72-hour Monohybrid Genetics Kit

    Complete Kit

    Learners develop and use a model to describe why reproduction in Fast Plants results in offspring with variation. Uses Fast Plant seed disks germinated in a Petri dish. No grow lights necessary.

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    High School Lessons

    Growing Wisconsin Fast Plants is engaging and educational for learners of ALL ages and grade levels. These recommended resources are great for getting started with Fast Plants. You’ll find many, many more resources in our Digital Library, too.

    Elementary

    Exploring Energy Transformations in Plants

    Lesson Plans 

    Learners investigate how plants harness and use sources of energy during germination and growth. Use with Standard Fast Plants Seeds

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  • Wisconsin Fast Plants® Growth, Development, and Reproduction Advanced Student Kit

    Complete Kit

    Learners observe the Fast Plant life cycle with an emphasis on gathering evidence for how systems function and interact (e.g. nutrient and water uptake).

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  • Elementary

    Wisconsin Fast Plants® Who’s the Father? Investigating Genetics Dihybrid Kit

    Lesson Plans 

    Learners investigate and ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring.

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    College

    Independent Investigations

    Growing Wisconsin Fast Plants is engaging and educational for learners of ALL ages and grade levels. These recommended resources are great for getting started with Fast Plants. You’ll find many, many more resources in our Digital Library, too.

    Independent Investigation

    Independent Investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants®

    Informational Resource

    This resource includes a list of investigable questions that are well suited to experimentation with Standard Fast Plants Seeds and information about observing and quantifying variation in Fast Plants.

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  • Wisconsin Fast Plants® Independent Research Kit

    Complete Kit

    Materials kit that includes the seeds and growing materials needed for 4 deli-container growing systems for experimentation plus planting instructions.

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  • Wisconsin Fast Plants® Confetti Kit

    Wisconsin Fast Plants® Confetti Kit

    Complete Kit

    This kit includes a variety of Wisconsin Fast Plants® seeds for studying variation in traits across 8 or more different Fast Plant stocks. Includes quads and the Wisconsin Fast Plant watering system.

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