Additional Class Projects: Grades 4-12

Allein Stanley & Sandy Sheine

Making spore prints

Making bread molds

Baking bread

Inhibit bacteria with antibiotics

Making mushroom collections: polypores, earthstars, cup fungi, stereums, etc.

Dehydration and reconstitution of mushrooms

Making fungal gardens- particularly on dung, succession on dung

Mushroom growing kits

Decomposition of fungi as they age

Making cheese

Making a moist chamber with slime molds

Making mushroom dyes

Dyeing wool with mushroom dyes

The effect of water and humidity on earth stars

Fungal names- writing stories, plays, poems and songs about mushrooms

Foxfire- bioluminescence

Making paper from fungi

Microscopic characteristics and study of fungi under the microscope

Mushrooms in literature

Making a herbarium

Making a mushroom card file

Fungi treasure hunts

Making slime mold collections ... will keep indefinitely, in boxes

Pilobolus - the cap thrower

Researching lichens

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