Project Ideas

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Day 1
Day 10!
Draw your full grown Mushroom Farm and label the parts below.
Use this growth log to carefully observe your Mushroom Farm over the next 10 days, and draw what you
see below (feel free to use a separate piece of paper if you want to make your drawings bigger!).
What do you think is happening inside your Mushroom Farm on each of these days?
Day 6
Day 7 Day 8 Day 9
Day 1:
Day 6:
Day 7:
Day 8:
Day 9:
What day do you think your mushrooms will start pinning?
What day did they actually start pinning? How close was your estimation?
Mushroom Daily Growth Log
cap
gills
hyphaemycelium
stalk
The largest living organism in the
world is the mycelium network
growing in an Oregon forest—it’s
bigger than 1,600 football fields!
DID YOU KNOW?