Ms. Macaulay's Favorite Fungus
Today, 6th grade students heard a portion of a lecture, "A Visit to the Mushroom Planet," given at Cornell by mycology professor, Dr. Kathy Hodges. (6S will get a chance to hear this tomorrow) As part of the lecture, students got a glimpse of the weird world of mushrooms, including the largest fungus (actually largest living organism) in Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon and my personal favorite, pilobolus! Ask your student to tell you about pilobolus.
Here is pilobolus in time lapse...
Here's an article about the Oregon fungus...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=120049&page=1#.T2DKlzsc_io