A Fungus Among Us
You want me to study fungi?? Eeewww!
A fungus probably isn’t the first image that pops into your mind when you envision nature study. But, oh, what a beautiful, colorful and fascinating world awaits as you begin to focus on mushrooms, molds and lichen.
A Fungus Among Us explores the very interesting and vast array of fungi lurking around you everyday.
What’s the difference between mushrooms, mold and lichen? What is the fruiting body of a fungus? Why do I find more fungi after the rain? Where are the best places to find fungi on a nature walk? Learn the answers to these and many other questions during this study!
The unit provides many ideas for finding and noting fungi outdoors through a scavenger hunt, fungi comparisons, and measurement and mapping charts. You’ll note and understand the functions of various characteristics, and learn why God created fungi. And this mentions only a few of the activities!
Inside, have fun with ideas such as making spore prints, growing mold, understanding yeast, and even taste-testing safe fungi. Learn things like how molds help us and harm us, how they devastated an entire country and what a mycologist does. Tons of ideas and 17 notebooking pages can keep you busy for many weeks to come, if you choose.
This super nature study topic has proven to excite many children (and adults) as they discover the exciting world of fungi!
58 pages, e-book
$12.00
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Links to art, artists, composers, compositions, poetry and literature suggestions:
Artist and Picture Study -
Wassily Kandinsky
Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula
Beatrix Potter
Composer and Music Study – Claude Debussy
Poetry -
Mushroom by Emily Dickenson
Mushrooms by Slyvia Plath
Recommended Books and Such
Fungus Among Us
These are links to specific titles that we have suggested where we ask you to do your own internet search because of copyright. We’re hoping this will be an acceptable compromise! There are often other books we have suggested to go along with the art, composer or poetry suggestions. They are already included in the “recommended book” section, so we chose not to link them again.
As always, if you come across a great link or additional idea for any of these areas, please let us know and we’ll add it right away!
[...] are also a fun study after the rain. In fact, one of the Fungus Among Us activities suggests noticing the brilliant colors of lichens after rain as compared to their color [...]