Fungi, Fungi Everywhere!

To conclude our collecting and examining life unit, the children learned about fungus.  They learned that different fungi such as mushrooms and mold are living things.  We collecting mold spores on bread to create our very own mold farms.  We then provided our mold farms with a moist, dark environment.  The children took pictures of their mold farms using both the digital camera and proscope to compare the different kinds of mold that we found.

  

  

We found green mold, black mold and some white mold.  Some of our mold was also "fuzzy" looking!




Here are pictures of our mold under the proscope digital microscope: