Summary
A short Nature Cat clip (~4 min). Ronald shows off a museum of mushrooms — a look at how many shapes, sizes, and kinds of fungi grow in nature. Free on the official PBS KIDS YouTube channel.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Mushrooms come in many shapes and sizes — Ronald's museum shows just how different they can be.
- How many different kinds of mushrooms did you notice?
- Where do mushrooms like to grow?
- How are two of the mushrooms different from each other?
- Why is it never safe to eat a wild mushroom you find?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: mushroom, fungi, compare, observe, variety.
Try it: Draw two different mushrooms. Write one way they are the same and one way they are different.