I would like to do an experiment to show the class how mold grows on bread..etc., what other great things can i show the class to explain fungi? I would also like to bring a mushroom. any other ideas?I have a science project on fungi?
Those are two very good ideas as you can easily grow mold on damp bread, and also purchase mushrooms at the grocery. You might also use yeast in an experiment that the students could participate in, if your teacher allows you to. They could mix yeast with warm water and sugar in a test tube, and then collect the gas in a ballon attached to the top. Or put it in a pipet and invert in a beaker to watch the gas bubble out into the water. This shows yeast is alive and is generating CO2 gas as it carries out respiration. You can probably find simple experimental set-ups on the Internet or ask your teacher for help. You could then connect a fungus (yeast) that produces bread, to a fungus (stolonifera nigra, black bread mold) that destroys it. Very interesting for kids to learn that bread is made from a fungi.
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