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the newsletter for the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program and Bottle Biology
features the latest activities developed by the Wisconsin Fast Plants
Program, information and news Fast Plants in the classroom, and ongoing
research with Fast Plants.
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2000 issue:
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Big Idea: Fast Plants, Heredity, and You (PDF File)
Featuring a classroom
research activity: "Is More Food Better?"
This activity addresses the
effect of nutrients on growth and reproduction. How much fertilizer
(nutrient or plant food) is best for an effective production of a crop of
Fast Plants? This is the same question that farmers ask every time they
plant a crop. Aligned to the National Science Standards, "Is More
Food Better?" involves asking a question, stating an hypothesis,
setting up an experimental design, recording real research data, analyzing
data, and asking further questions.
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1999
- Farming Fast Plants
- How Many Seeds Can You
Produce?
- Farmers Alamanac: Guide
for Fast Plants Farmers
- Bottle Cap Gardening
- Film Can Magnifer
1998
- Farming in Space
- The CUE Review:
Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment
- Variation in Fast Plants
- Plant Light House
- Student Abstracts
1997
- Scientists Announce First-Ever Germination of Seeds Grown in Space:
Another Milestone for Fast Plants
- The Importance of Plants
in Space
- Fast Plants: A Space
Odyssey
- Microgravity
- "Launching the
Seed"
- Fast Plants Lighting
Enters the 21st Century
- Pressing Matters
1996
- Teachers and Students Investigating Plants in Space
- Activity: Tumbling in
Space
- Understanding the
Environment
- Is there a Pollution
Solution? The effect of salt on Fast Plants
1995
- Spring edition - "AstroPlants" in Space: Simulating the Space
Shuttle Experiment
- Try Your Luck at "Brassica
Bingo"
- The Soda Bottle (Alias
"Petri dish holder")
1995
- Fall Edition - The Population Explosion
- AstroPlants Update
- The NectarQuest
- Crucifer Consumption
Survey
1994
- Seeing the Light: When growing Fast Plants, the more Light the the
better.
- Speedy Bee and the Case
of the Noisy Bees
- Hormone-induced
Parthenocarpy in Wildtype Rapid-Cycling Brassica rapa.
- The Brassic rapa Fairy
- Introducing Fast Plants
Passports
- What's happening with
Bottle Biology
1993
- Hairy's Inheritance: Getting a Handle on Variation
- Soil Meditations:
Explore the world under your feet
- Film Can Mysteries
- The Sedimentation Bottle
- Cooking with Soils
- Are cabbage Loopers
finicky Fast Plants eaters?
- Exploring the Effects of
Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Fast Plants
1992
- Getting a Handle on Variation: Quantifying differences in plant height
- Composting with a Wiggle
- Ideas or Investigations
with rapid-cycling Brassica rapa
1991
- The Tall and Short of Fast Plants: The ein and ros Mutants
- Insect Habitats Part 1:
Fruit Fly Trap and Breeder
- Insect Habitats Part II:
Predator-Prey Bottle Column
- Spiral of Life Poster
- Bottle Microscope
- The Niche Kit
- Film Can Hand Lens
1990
- Introducing Bottle Biology
- Keeping up with Fast
Plants
- AgriScience Institute
- Exploring Photosynthesis
with Fast Plants
- TerrAqua Coumn
- Fast Plants and
Families: How is Variation Generated and Maintained
- Compost Columns in
Elementary Science Methods Classes
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