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Mushroom
Growth Kit - Everything you need to bring fungi into
the classroom.
Why
should you be teaching your students about fungi?
Why
should you be teaching your students about fungi?
As Earth’s recyclers, fungi are essential components
of our ecosystems cycling nutrients for plants, animals and bacteria.
It has recently been discovered that over 90% of all land plants grow
in conjunction with a fungal partner that protects them from disease
and aids in the absorption of nutrients from the soil. Many plant-fungal
partnerships are even required for plant growth and survival. Finally,
if you’ve ever eaten bread, enjoyed blue cheese dressing, drank
wine, taken an antibiotic or ordered mushrooms on a pizza, then you’ve
benefited from this incredible group of organisms!
The GMI Educator’s Mushroom Growth Kit™ will
allow you to bring the amazing world of fungi into your classroom with
a complete, standards-based lesson plan, anatomy and lifecycle worksheets,
and our exclusive Mushroom Modules™ that make mushroom growing
easy and fun. No matter what grade level, the GMI Educator’s Growth
Kit will allow you to effectively deliver a high quality and exciting
lesson on the wonders of the fungal kingdom.
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 NSES
based lesson plan:
Offered for
all grade levels, our professionally authored National Science Education
Standards (NSES) based lesson plans give you everything you need to
get started teaching your students about the amazing world of fungi.
They’ve been aligned with the national content standards eliminating
guesswork and streamlining your preparation time. All three lesson plans
(K-4, 5-8, & 9-12) include a full chapter’s worth of textbook-style
background information as well as concepts, science themes, laboratory
and extension activities. In addition, the GMI Educator’s Mushroom
Growth Kit™lesson plans have been reviewed and endorsed by the
California Department of Education as an approved NSES based teaching
resource. Indicate grade level when ordering.
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 Lifecycle
& anatomy worksheets
Our accurate and up to date lifecycle and anatomy worksheets will allow
you to show your students the biological features of fungal growth and
reproduction. The middle/high school level lifecycle diagram is also
designed as a worksheet complete with a key for teaching fungal terminology
and/or preparing examinations.
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 Our
exclusive Mushroom Modules™ make growing mushrooms easy and fun!
The GMI Educator’s Growth Kit™
state of the art Mushroom Modules™ make classroom/laboratory mushroom
cultivation nearly foolproof. Extensively tested by teachers and curriculum
developers alike, they will bring the exciting world of fungal growth
and reproduction into your classroom or laboratory! Each Mushroom Module™
will produce enough mushrooms for demonstration activities like creating
spore prints and/or microscopic examinations. The Modules™ will
produce a cluster of the common Oyster mushroom (P. ostreatus) which
are completely safe and edible.*
Our middle/high school kits are supplied with two
Modules for a laboratory investigation of the physiological effects
of gravity (gravitropism) on mushroom growth. In addition, the decomposed
sawdust mushroom substrate in the module can be used for plant propagation
to demonstrate nutrient recycling. Our basic K-4 kit includes one Mushroom
Module™ and the middle and high school kits include two Modules
for the optional gravitropism laboratory exercise.
*NOTE
Although the Oyster
mushrooms produced by the module™ are completely safe and edible,
we do NOT recommend consuming them because they will not be grown
in a food-safe, sanitary environment (ie your classroom or laboratory).
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