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View Resource 3-D Fast Plants Life Cycle Investigation Lesson Plan

This comprehensive Open Source lesson plan is designed for Kindergarten through Middle School level students to learn about life cycles, plants needs, and plant structures & their functions through hands-on investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants. Depending on the grade level, students engage at an appropriate depth with developing models and constructing arguments that plants have internal and...

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gsGGouSl1pO7LhJu7hZnwAI3...
View Resource WI Fast Stats: a Collection of Web Apps for the Visualization and Analysis of WI Fast Plants Data

This 5-page article is written by Yizhou Liu and Claudia Solis-Lemus and introduces Wisconsin Fast Stats, a collection of R-developed web apps of data analysis and visualization tools for educators that accompany learning activities from Wisconsin Fast Plants. The article covers topics such as statement of need, descriptions of the website and the app, as well as future work. The WI Fast Stats App...

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03290
View Resource WI Fast Stats App

WI Fast Stats is a browser-based data analysis and visualization tool that can be used alongside Wisconsin Fast Plants. WI Fast Stats has a set of R-developed unique web apps that corresponds to specific WI Fast Plants webinars and dataset (such as Cotyledon, or Ecosystem), to make data analysis accessible for K-12 educators. The app is open source and can be downloaded via GitHub. The developers...

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https://wi-fast-stats.wid.wisc.edu/
View Resource Biological Variation in Fast Plants Lesson Plan

This 26-page lesson plan, published in a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carolina Biological, and Concord Consortium, guides educators through teaching a lesson that accompanies "using Genetics with Data Science and Three-Dimensional Teaching". It describes lesson outcomes and they NGSS standards that align with them, as well as offers a formative assessment of student...

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_PMv362Q041F0GwxZqQB9pZ...
View Resource Infusing Genetics With Data Science and Three-Dimensional Teaching

This blog post, written by Frieda Reichsman, discusses how educators can implement three-dimensional teaching methods into classrooms and meet the Next Generation Science Standards. The article introduces the 3D Teacher Moves Table, a lesson-planning tool created by Hedi Lauffer at Wisconsin Fast Plants, as a guide for high school biology teachers to use when developing lessons and curricula to...

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https://concord.org/blog/infusing-genetics-with-data-science...