Additional Class Projects (Grades 4-12)
More activities
- Making spore prints
- Making paper from fungi
- Charting Mold Growth
- Making Yeast Bread
- Fungi treasure hunts
- Making mushroom collections: polypores, earthstars, cup fungi, stereums, etc.
- Fungal names: writing stories, plays, poems and songs about mushrooms
More ideas
Here are some ideas for additional projects. If you would like to learn more, contact Sandy Shiene at the address below.
- Inhibit bacteria with antibiotics
- 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
- Foxfire - bioluminescence
- Study of characteristics of fungi under the microscope
- Mushrooms in literature
- Making a herbarium
- Making a mushroom card file
- Making slime mold collections ... will keep indefinitely, in boxes
- Pilobolus - the cap thrower
- Researching lichens
For more information
Sandy Sheine
PO Box 81640
Rochester, Michigan 48308-1640
(248) 672-5301
Please send Sondra Sheine any teaching materials that you have used with children to add to this material.