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Science Inquiry Map
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Download and print this colorful "Science Inquiry Map" Poster featuring the web of inquiry processes as described by the Five Essential Features of Inquiry from the National Science Education Standards. In addition, the model of inquiry described by the Five Essential Features aligns directly with the Science Practices described in the Next Generation Science Standards. Generally, this poster is used by elementary and middle-school teachers to support learners in being metacognitive about what science practices are in the foreground of their current work during an investigation.

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Biology
Life Science
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Lesson
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Author:
Amy Kelley
Daniel W. Lauffer
Hedi Baxter Lauffer
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Science Notebook Pages, including illustrated Fast Plants deli-container planting instructions
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This document is the step-by-step instructions for planting Fast Plants in a deli-container growing system like is used in Reading Green. The instructions include measurements that are then integrated into mathematics problems that are on the flip side of the planting instructions. The instructions are illustrated by our Fast Plants artist, Amy, to help all learners understand the steps.

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Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
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Activity/Lab
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
The Seed Challenge - How many seeds can you get from a single seed?
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A 23-page PDF file (644 KB) with a complete set of activities for elementary students (also effective in middle school) to learn about the life cycle of flowering plants with a focus on reproduction. Students predict how many seeds their Fast Plant will produce and engage in planting, growing, observing doing supporting learning activities to understand the life cycle. Carolina Biological sells a kit to accompany this activity for a class of 32 students, containing the seeds and planting materials. Alternatively, the activity can be taught using the "how to grow" instructions on the Fast Plants website, seeds from a packet of Standard Wisconsin Fast Plants (or seeds from Fast Plants you grow yourself) and your own potting mix and growing system. A 24-hour light source is needed for this activity.

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Genetics
Life Science
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Selecting for Stem Color - Timeline and Calendar
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This document includes a timeline and calendar to serve as planning tools for teachers to use when figuring out when to begin the steps associated with conducting a two-generation artificial selection experiment using Fast Plants. This investigation focuses on selection for the stem color trait. Teachers preparing for a selection experiment will find the calendar particularly helpful, and the timeline can be used as a printable student guide as well. This investigation was created alongside the Investigating Brassicas Around the World lesson (searchable in Digital Library) but can also be conducted as a standalone lab experiment.

Subject:
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Student Guide
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Author:
Hedi Baxter Lauffer
Jackson Hetue
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Serendipity and the Space Farmer
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Who knew that rocket science could have so much in common with botany and plant pathology? This is a human interest and science story that documents from firsthand accounts and artifacts the historical context and scientific events relevant to an important collaborative Fast Plant investigation on the MIR Space Station. The project coincided with pivotal historical events and involved many scientists, teachers, and students in the Ukraine and the US. The project was called the Collaborate Ukraine Experiment, and this story was written explicitly to present in an interesting way to students and teachers how engineering practices--as well as science practices--are important in the life sciences.

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Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Author:
Daniel W. Lauffer
Douglas Niles
Hedi Baxter Lauffer
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Standard Wisconsin Fast Plants - Seed Variety Description
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This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the Standard variety of Wisconsin Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism to teach about the plant life cycle and plant structures and functions.

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Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Structures and Functions Matching Cards Activity
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This activity is designed for teaching the functions of basic plant structures. The activity uses two types of matching cards containing either a) Structures - depictions of plant structures b) Functions - descriptions of the function of plant structures  Using the downloadable PDF (including instructions for printing) you can make one set of cards per student or per student group, and students can cut out their own cards.  This activity can stand on its own, or if  you are teaching the Investigating Brassicas Around the World lesson, you can extend this activity by instructing students to match their Structure/Function pairs with the Brassica vegetables they observed in the lesson.  This activity can also be used to begin a discussion about how plant breeding focuses on different plant structures, which has contributed to the variation we observe in different Brassica vegetables.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Author:
Hedi Baxter Lauffer
Jackson Hetue
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Tall Plant - Seed Variety Description
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This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the Tall Plant variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety.

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Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Variegated - Seed Variety Description
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This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the Variegated variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety.

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Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Author:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Who's the Father? Dihybrid
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Download the complete instructions for a high school level inheritance inquiry, using Wisconsin Fast Plants. In this investigation, students gather their own evidence to explain how inheritance works. As they observe three generations of Wisconsin Fast Plants, students unravel a paternity mystery: What was the father’s phenotype? Was it the same as the mother’s phenotype or the offspring’s phenotype? Or is it something entirely different? As first, then second generations of plants grow, students make observations that serve as evidence to support or refute their explanations about the inheritance of two easily observable traits that demonstrate Mendelian patterns of simple dominant / recessive genotypes. Complete kits are available from Carolina Biological for this investigation, or everything to grow Fast Plants can be built or obtained locally, using the instructions available on the Fast Plants website.

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Genetics
Life Science
Mathematics
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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Who's the Father? Monohybrid
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In this investigation, students will gather their own evidence to explain how inheritance works. As they observe three generations of Wisconsin Fast Plants, students will unravel a mystery of paternity: What is the father’s phenotype? Is it the same as the mother’s phenotype or the offspring’s phenotype? Or is it something entirely different? As the generations of plants grow, students will make observations that will serve as evidence to support or refute their explanations about the inheritance of a trait.

Subject:
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Wisconsin Fast Plants Life Cycle Annotated Timelapse
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This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants, and introduces the plant life cycle. The video features a 40-day time lapse of the Fast Plants from seeds during germination, through flowering and reproduction, until harvesting seeds at the end of the cycle. This recording runs for 02:19 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Wisconsin Fast Plants Life Cycle Time Lapse
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On YouTube: Time lapse video of Wisconsin Fast Plants growing from planted seed through flowering to seed production, set to music! Time lapse just makes them grow a little faster than they do in real life -- this video shows approximately 40 days, the time it takes to produce the next generation.

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Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
02/07/2024
Wisconsin Fast Plants Life Cycle Time Lapse
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On YouTube: Time lapse video of Wisconsin Fast Plants growing from planted seed through flowering to seed production, set to music! Time lapse just makes them grow a little faster than they do in real life -- this video shows approximately 40 days, the time it takes to produce the next generation.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Wisconsin Fast Plants: Recommended Tending and Pollination
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This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants and demonstrates how to tend and pollinate Fast Plants as they grow and develop. While both tending to and pollinating Fast Plants is the recommended approach, this video features an experiment to illustrate the effect that tending and pollination has on the plant's growth. It includes a 40-day time lapse, where viewers can watch the differences between a plant that is thinned and pollinated, one that is tended but not pollinated, and one that is pollinated but not tended. This recording runs for 03:53 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023
Yellow-Green Leaf - Seed Variety Description
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This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the Yellow-Green Leaf variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Wisconsin Fast Plants Program
Date Added:
05/25/2023