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A teacher-developed scoring rubric for student's conceptual model for explaining inheritance of Mendelian traits in Wisconsin Fast Plants and presentation.

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This Farming Fast Plants activity introduces a classroom investigation that is easily adaptable for all grade levels and designed to engage teachers and students as investigators. The activity has...

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Wisconsin Fast Plants, rapid-cycling brassicas, are part of a large family of plants called crucifers (Latin = Cruciferae). This resource tells the story of Crucifers, which are easily distinguished...

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This pdf includes background information and an activity for engaging students in the processes that occur during pollination, fertilization and seed development in Fast Plants. Pollination is...

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This webpage explains the steps for pollinating Fast Plants.

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This document provides extensive background information about how Fast Plants grow and develop. The distinction between growth and development is explained. Also discussed is how genetics plus...

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This illustrated document describes the symbiotic relationship between bees and Brassica rapa (Fast Plants).

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Written by Drs. Mary Musgrave (US) and Elizabeth Kordyum (Ukraine), this is an appendix from the manual used when Fast Plants went into space through a joint NASA and Ukraine research project that...

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One of the seminal papers written by Dr. Paul H. Williams, introducing Wisconsin Fast Plants. This article explains the taxonomy of Brassicas and how how Williams created the Brassica rapa commonly...

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This pdf file gives instructions and dimensions for building a wooden or PVC stand for a fluorescent lightbank (using fluorescent shop lights). A fluorescent lightbank is most appropriate for growing...

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