Painting
Water colour; gouache; painting, drawing, pen and ink with water
colour,
field sketching, and
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Photography
Photography; what to image; lighting, composition, studio
photography; photomicrography, and
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Microscopes
Choosing your first microscope; set up the microscope; prepare
specimens; stains, mountants; making photographs and
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F A Qs
Questions about soy sauce, mouldy jam, beer, athlete's foot,
toxins, allergies, decomposition, cells, spores and
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School News
The University of Manchester's Children's University is launched.
An exciting interactive website for 7-11 year olds full of
innovative resources relevant to Key Stage 2 that combine learning
with fun!
CLICK HERE or on the logo below to visit the site and see
the micro-organisms section.
Do your pupils need expert, impartial advice on higher education
and beyond?
CLICK HERE to visit UniversityOptions,
where you'll find information on a range of areas including finance
and the jobs to which different subjects can lead.
Contact us
To send feedback on any aspect of this website CLICK
HERE to e-mail the webmaster.
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This is a legacy website, produced in 2006 for the British Mycological Society.
It is no longer maintained by the BMS but I keep it alive as a service to teachers.
How to use this website
CLICK HERE
Beginners start by
CLICKING HERE
CLICK HERE for answers to your most frequently-asked
questions
CLICK HERE to access Teaching Resources for Key Stages
2-3 including everything you need for a day of
activities that teach 7-11
year-olds about fungi
CLICK HERE to access Teaching Resources for Key Stage 4
CLICK HERE to view our 'Funky Fungi' workshop - a training exercise or
demonstration for GCSE pupils to promote awareness and understanding of fungi
CLICK HERE
for pointers to Post-16 Resources
CLICK HERE for
complete courses on drawing and painting, and
photographing fungi
CLICK HERE for advice on microscopy, from
buying a microscope to making your own photomicrographs
CLICK HERE to visit our galleries of free-to-download Display Posters and
Graphics files
Copy freely for the classroom
These web pages were produced by David Moore and originally published by the
British Mycological Society
Who
else can give you an entire Kingdom?
[and part of two others ...!]
© British Mycological Society 2006
Updated
10/10/2018
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Beginners
Explain the jargon; tips for field study; doing things,
making things; first steps in biodiversity; mushrooms, toadstools,
truffles, fairy rings, jelly fungi, birds nest fungi, puffballs, stinkhorns, brackets, mildew,
rusts and
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Key Stages 2 & 3
Everything needed for games and activities making a
complete learning experience for 7 to 11-year olds; online books and FREE
downloads; wide ranging advice; worksheets; simple keys, charts,
guides and
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Key Stage 4
Classroom-ready resources; teacher's guides, class sheets,
quizzes, games; all linked to National Curriculum; ready-made
lessons and classroom activities, FREE to download and free to copy; cells and cell biology; world of
fungi; what's your favourite fungus and
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Post-16
Websites and reprints of articles (FREE to download); resources on exploring genomes and genomics, medical and health
topics, toxins; fungi as food; fungal growth, kinetics and
mechanics; biotechnology; fungi in the environment; soil, minerals,
mycorrhizas, alien fungi, geomycology and
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