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Curriculum 1: Fantastic Fungi (Grades 4-7)
The document covers four core wonders across page one — mycelium networks, bioluminescence, walking trees, and zombie ants — with vocabulary, “Did You Know?” callouts, and accessible explanations. Page two is all activities: Seven hands-on activities spanning science, writing, debate, art, and comics — including spore print art (grocery store mushrooms, overnight, no special supplies), a mycelium map built with yarn across the classroom, a bioluminescence demonstration using glow sticks, a persuasive debate on fungal protection, and a zombie ant comic strip from the fungus’s point of view.
Curriculum 2: Nature’s Hidden Wonders (Grades 6-8)
Here are the amazing things your students can expect: Exploding plants, walking trees, plants that glow, zombie ants, plants that make music, and a brainless plant that learns and remembers. Activities include: Build a Mini Exploding Seed Pod (balloon demo); Map a Zombie Ant Scenario (graph paper + ecology); Listen to a Plant — Biorhythm Music Lab; The Mimosa Memory Experiment.
Want a speaker? Want an award-winning author to speak about the wonders in nature and teach your students how they can write their own fictional stories? Learn about Glenn Somodi’s “Puffballs, Talking Plants, and Zombie Ants” hour-long presentation, tied to his award-winning middle grade fiction fantasy book series, Olly & the Spores.
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