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Can You Grow a Chewy-Ooey-Gooey-Chocolatey-Nutty Candy Bar?

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Candy in classrooms seems inevitable at certain times of the year. This simple handout offers a little food for thought so students can learn a few yummy morsels about the plants they are enjoying in every delicious bite. Note: The visuals are kid-friendly but some key vocabulary is not; primary students…

Fascination of Plants Day 2015 - SUCCESS STORIES

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Official SUCCESS STORIES Report for FoPD 2015 Thanks to the voluntary contributions and hard work of many people in the plant science community around the world the Fascination of Plants Day 2015 was a huge success.  This publication celebrates how so much diversity -  in terms of individual demographics,…

Build a Super Plant! Outreach activity

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This activity is meant to illustrate the concept of the “random” nature of allele inheritance and the resulting phenotypes. In this activity, colored balls that are selected randomly from a bingo cage represent the alleles.  These colors correspond with phenotypes for specific traits. This activity…

Plants release chemical weapons and deploy insect armies in their defence

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From The Conversation, by Angela White. Accessible article about how plants defend themselves from herbivore. View full article