Mushrooms Lesson Plans

Students identify the different types of mushrooms. In this biology instructional activity, students explore different mushroom experiments they can do at home. They discuss ways to extend sliced mushrooms' shelf life.

Pupils use mushrooms to solve problems. In this environmental lesson, students study how fungi have been used to combat environmental problems. Pupils design strategies that employ mushrooms to combat other environmental challenges.

Students create a mushroom spore design on paper while studying the facts on fungi.

What a terrific resource! Learners discuss why certain foods are good for your body. They talk about meat and beans, apples and bananas, and potatoes and mushrooms, and analyze which food choices help us maintain healthy bodies. They also discuss how physical activity is good for our heart and other muscles. 

Learners explore various types and characteristics of fungi. In this fungi instructional activity,students view drawings of how mushrooms grow, examine samples of fungi and complete a handout.

Learners develop and create a production company and produce a fall event that demonstrates what they have learned in various subject areas. STudents create stories, complete a venn diagram comparing fall and summer, graph and measure seeds, label the parts of a mushroom, and create a squirrel drey out of leaves and grass.

Students investigate the environment by participating in a class field trip. In this botany lesson, students attend a field trip through their local park or forest while listening to a nature guide. Students practice using their 5 senses and identify different mushrooms, trees and plants.

Students participate in a jungle run in which they must group with the same people who hold the same cards with pictures of a tree, mushroom, deer or insect. In these groups, they read the definitions of sustainable development. Using text, they answer questions related to the cards they had from the beginning exercise. They draw pictures showing the different environments of which these items live.

Students examine a variety of mushrooms writing down as much information as possible. They conduct Internet research on the mushrooms to identify them by name and state if they are poisonous or not.

Students complete pre reading, writing, post reading activities for the book Mushrooms For Dinner. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.