Read the Fine Print
Educational Use
In this lesson, students will be amateur mycologists--collecting and analyzing various mushrooms. Through observation and discussion, students will gain knowledge of the basic anatomy of mushrooms, their life cycle, and their method of reproduction through spores. Students will learn to create spore prints of mushrooms and label and preserve their spore prints, just like a mycologist. Students also will learn that by comparing spore prints, they can identify different mushroom species.
- Subject:
- Botany
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Diagram/Illustration
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Science Friday Initiative
- Provider Set:
- Science Friday
- Date Added:
- 01/22/2010