Year 3/4 Sustainability Unit - integrating Biological Sciences and The Arts
Exploring Fungi is a fascinating and engaging unit offering multiple outdoor, hands-on learning opportunities, including looking for fungi in the field, conducting a mushroom growing experiment, identifying fungi types, setting up a fungi garden and integrating sketching and photography as research tools. Through this inquiry into the Kingdom of Fungi, students will be exposed to exciting Sustainability Systems and Futures knowledge and understanding. The emphasis in this unit is on beneficial fungi and their roles in ecosystems, as well as how we can work with them. Please read the introduction to this unit to understand its scope and safety tips.