QUESTIONS TO ASK:
- What does a morel mushroom look like? What are the parts of a morel? Where does it grow? What plant clues help me find mushrooms?
- What role does a morel mushroom play in the ecosystem?
- Morel mushrooms are part of which kingdom?
- How does a morel mushroom get its energy/food?
- What other types of organisms might I find when searching for mushrooms?
Click here for a LESSON WORKSHEET (grades 5-12) to complete as you watch the video
Click on the video to the right to start your mushroom adventure!
MOREL MUSHROOM VIDEO LESSON
VOCABULARY:
Fungi - one or multi-celled organisms that absorb food from their environment
Producer - an organism which makes its own energy
Consumer - an organism which eats other organisms in order to get energy and grow
Decomposer - an organism which gains its energy from dead or decaying material
Food Chain - the path of energy from one organism to another
Food Web - the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
Habitat - place where an organism naturally lives, grows and reproduces
Spore - reproductive cell of fungi
Click here for the Morel Mushroom Madness Vocabulary (print version)
OUTDOOR CHALLENGE:
Click here for your OUTDOOR CHALLENGE: At Home Fungi Scavenger Hunt (print version)
