Further Fungi Activities: Grades 4-8

1. Choose a mushroom from a collection of mushrooms or from a picture in a book. A. Draw a picture of the mushroom.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

B. Describe the mushroom in your own words.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

C. Make a spore print

D. Examine the mushroom with a hand lens. Describe or draw what you see.

E. Prepare a slide to examine the spores and other features under the microscope. Describe or draw what you see.

 2. Find the definitions of the following words associated with mushrooms: fungi, fungus, mycology, mycologist, mushroom, poisonous, edible, pileus, cap, stipe, stem, gill, pore, annulus, ring, volva, bulb, spore, hyphae, mycelium, parasite, saphrophyte, symbiosis, ascus, basidium, myxomycetes, slime molds Sandy Sheine

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