A Fungus Among Us...

We recently completed a unit study on Fungus... It was very interesting and informative on my part.. 
I ordered the e-book "A Fungus Among Us"  from TOS and it was great.

Luckily it has been a wet season with lots of mushrooms to study.

We took many nature walks, compared wild mushrooms to those bought in a package from the grocery, dissected various forms of fungi that we found on journeys through the yard and woods, and grew our own mold on bread and other various food items to see if there was a difference in the type according to the type of food used.

We finished our plans with worksheets found across the net and books from the library...


DS looking at the gills of a mushroom.



DD having fun with dissection.

Some great worksheets about mushrooms can be found here, at ENCHANTED LEARNING.
More info can be found here along with great teaching ideas and activities.
Order your own "Mushroom Growing Kit" here.