Target Student Performance
Students develop integrated accounts of how other fungi (bracket fungi, bread mold, mycorrhizal fungi) grow and function through the processes of digestion, cellular respiration, and biosynthesis.
Resources You Provide
- (from previous lesson) 1.2 Expressing Ideas Tool for Bread Molding
- (from previous lesson) 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Bread Molding
Resources Provided
- 6.2 Explaining Other Examples of Decomposers Growing, Moving, and Functioning PPT
- 6.2 Other Decomposers Reading: Bracket Fungi
- 6.2 Other Decomposers Reading: Bread Mold
- 6.2 Other Decomposers Reading: Mycorrhizal Fungi
- 6.2 Bracket Fungi Worksheet
- 6.2 Bread Mold Worksheet
- 6.2 Mycorrhizal Fungi Worksheet
- 6.2 Grading Bracket Fungi Worksheet
- 6.2 Grading Bread Mold Worksheet
- 6.2 Grading Mycorrhizal Fungi Worksheet
Recurring Resources
- (from previous lesson) Bread Molding Class Results 11 x 17 Poster or (Spreadsheet)
- Three Questions 11x17 Poster (1 per class)
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version)
Setup
Prepare several copies of each version of 6.2 Other Decomposers Reading, and 6.2 Bracket Fungi/Bread Mold/Mycorrhizal Fungi Worksheet so that there is one for each student. Gather the class results poster and spreadsheet from Activity 3.2, as well as their completed copies of 1.2 Expressing Ideas Tool for Bread Molding and 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Bread Molding. Prepare a computer and a projector to display the PPT.