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Growing for the Future Key Stage 1 January www.ccea.org.uk/growing 1 Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making Key Stage 1 Activity 1: Growing your own Mushrooms Background and Science Information Grow your own mushroom kits are available online. They can be a self-contained box that you spray with water twice a day. The mushrooms take about 10 days to burst through the container. They also come in the form of an open box that allows you to see the growing process. The kits come with full instructions. Scientific Inquiry Can I grow mushrooms? What conditions do they like to make them grow? Learning Intention Mushrooms like dark, damp conditions. I can predict. Resources • Grow your own mushroom kit with instructions • Water • Access to water the kit twice a day during the growing period. This may involve someone taking them home over the weekend or holiday periods. Method Introduction Talk to your learners about mushrooms. Show them images of different types of mushroom. Encourage them to think about when or where they might have seen mushrooms. Encourage them to taste cooked mushrooms and explore and feel fresh raw mushrooms. Development Set up the mushroom growing kit when you can monitor it over a two-week period. Take photographs each day to create a storyboard at the end of the process. Discussion and Plenary With the growing investigation setup, encourage your learners to think about what we have to do to help the mushrooms grow. Read the instructions to your learners to see if any of them recognise the job they have to do such as water the mushrooms. Talk about how long it might be before you see any mushrooms and how many there might be. Give your learners the opportunity to predict. Record their predictions. At the end of the process, create a storyboard of each day. Ask your learners to check what happened and whether this was what they had predicted. For example, how many days did it actually take for the mushrooms to appear?
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Growingfor theFuture
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Thinking, Problem-Solving,
and Decision-Making
Key Stage 1Activity 1: Growing your own Mushrooms
Background and Science InformationGrow your own mushroom kits are available online. They can be a self-contained box that you spray with water twice a day. The mushrooms take about 10 days to burst through the container. They also come in the form of an open box that allows you to see the growing process. The kits come with full instructions.
Scientific InquiryCan I grow mushrooms? What conditions do they like to make them grow?
Learning IntentionMushrooms like dark, damp conditions.I can predict.
Resources
• Grow your own mushroom kit with instructions• Water• Access to water the kit twice a day during the growing period. This may involve
someone taking them home over the weekend or holiday periods.
MethodIntroduction
Talk to your learners about mushrooms. Show them images of different types of mushroom. Encourage them to think about when or where they might have seen mushrooms. Encourage them to taste cooked mushrooms and explore and feel fresh raw mushrooms. Development
Set up the mushroom growing kit when you can monitor it over a two-week period.Take photographs each day to create a storyboard at the end of the process.
Discussion and Plenary With the growing investigation setup, encourage your learners to think about what we have to do to help the mushrooms grow. Read the instructions to your learners to see if any of them recognise the job they have to do such as water the mushrooms.
Talk about how long it might be before you see any mushrooms and how many there might be. Give your learners the opportunity to predict. Record their predictions.
At the end of the process, create a storyboard of each day. Ask your learners to check what happened and whether this was what they had predicted. For example, how many days did it actually take for the mushrooms to appear?
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ExtensionWhen the mushrooms grow, show your learners how they can harvest and use them for various activities. Give your learners time to cut open and explore the different parts of the mushroom.
Cook the cut up mushrooms.
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Being Creative
Key Stage 1Activity 2: Mushroom Art
Background and Science InformationYou can use mushrooms you have grown for this activity or simply buy fresh mushrooms from your local greengrocers.
Learning IntentionI can use various mediums (including food) to paint and print with.
Resources• Mushrooms• Knife• Paper• Paint • Ink
MethodIntroduction
Talk to your learners about mushrooms. Encourage them to examine the different parts. Explain that they are going to make prints of the spores. Show them example of prints and model how to do it.
Scales
Stem (stape)
Mycelial threads
Gills (Lamellae)
Cap (Pileus)
Ring (Annulus)
Hyphae
Cup (Volva)
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Development
Cut off the stem as close to the cap as you can.
Take a photograph of the underside of the mushroom (gills and spore area). This will allow you to compare when the prints are complete.
Place the cap (gills down) on the sheet of white paper or card. Leave in this position for 2–3 hours.
Place some on a darker page. Can your learners see them any better than those left on a light coloured page? Try covering a few with paint or ink and then placing them on to paper to see if they give you the same or similar markings.
Discussion and Plenary Encourage your learners to compare the photographs to the prints. Can they find the matching mushrooms? Do they look similar?
ExtensionMake a link to the curriculum numeracy by increasing the number of prints to make patterns (for example Numicon 1–5) on each sheet of paper.
1 2 3 4 5
Place a mushroom in each circular space.
Count the number patterns.
Being Creative
