Let’s Plan! A Student’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms
$15.95
From popular children’s gardening expert Leah Brooks, Let’s Plan! A Student’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms is an interactive, hands-on workbook that introduces children to the fascinating world of fungi through engaging activities and real-world observation.
This practical and engaging companion guide teaches students how to grow, observe, and harvest mushrooms grown on ‘spray-and-grow’ mushroom kits, available from Tower Garden and other vendors.
With clear instructions, lesson plans, educational games, and science-based activities, students study mycology and explore the diverse kingdom Fungi, all the while building curiosity, observation skills, and scientific thinking.
Use this companion guide alongside ‘spray-and-grow’ mushroom kits (available from Tower Garden and other vendors – purchased separately).
63 pages | This is a digital only resource.
Let's Plan! A Student's Guide to Growing Mushrooms
Let’s Plan! A Student’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms turns a simple mushroom kit into an exciting hands-on science project for kids. This engaging guide walks students step-by-step through setting up, caring for, and harvesting their own mushrooms while learning how fungi grow and why they matter.
Written for young learners, the book explains important concepts like mycelium, spores, and the mushroom life cycle in easy-to-understand language. Students practice real science skills by making predictions, keeping observation journals, and completing fun activities and experiments.
With clear instructions, diagrams, checklists, and hands-on worksheets, this guide helps children grow confidence as they watch real mushrooms develop right before their eyes. Perfect for homeschoolers, classrooms, and curious kids ready to explore the amazing world of fungi!
Students Will Learn To:
- Set up and care for a mushroom growing kit
- Understand the role of mycelium and how mushrooms form
- Provide the right humidity, light, and airflow for healthy growth
- Recognize growth stages from pins to harvest
- Identify when mushrooms are ready to pick
- Track observations and keep a harvest journal
- Learn the basic anatomy of a mushroom
- Understand the mushroom life cycle
- Discover what spores are and how they spread
- Create a real spore print experiment
- Tell the difference between mushrooms and mold
- Explore where fungi grow in nature
- Understand the role of fungi as decomposers
- Build science vocabulary related to fungi
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