{"id":132757,"date":"2020-12-17T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=132757"},"modified":"2020-12-17T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:38:10","slug":"keiki-fungi-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/17\/keiki-fungi-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Keiki learn to appreciate the fungi of their labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-1.jpg\" alt=\"woman online teaching\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-132760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, hands-on &ldquo;classroom&rdquo; activities that students can do from home are now more important than ever. This inspired University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a>\u2019 Extension educators to develop some fun times with fungi, virtually helping <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students cultivate their own oyster mushrooms at home.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 teachers and community members joined an online webinar, learning how to leverage mushroom cultivation using teacher-crafted lessons for 150 students grades K&#8211;12.<\/p>\n<p>Each mushroom grow bag can yield around three flushes (crops) of mushrooms that students can engage with to learn <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> principles, before trying their hand at cooking with&#8212;and eating&#8212;their very own mushrooms. Younger students use mushrooms to learn about life-cycles, while the older students can practice collecting data and learn about complex nutrient cycles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-2.jpg\" alt=\"oyster mushrooms\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-132759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-ctahr-mushroom-2-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the students have been making mushroom observations, their teachers have been making observations as well. The kids really get creative, the teachers noted, as they find various places to grow and cultivate their mushrooms. The children are excited to have something they can call their own, take care of, and discuss with each other.<\/p>\n<p>More than 250 mushroom kits have been sent out statewide. Teachers are hopeful that after the pandemic, they\u2019ll be able to implement a mushroom program in their classrooms. One day, mushrooms could be cultivated at a larger scale at schools for students to practice laboratory, business or culinary skills with the fungi of their labor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/NewsLetter\/ArtMID\/52574\/ArticleID\/1930\/Mushroom-Trip\">Read more at the <abbr title=\"College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources\">CTAHR<\/abbr> website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Mahina Smith<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources\">CTAHR<\/abbr> Extension educators sent out more than 250 mushroom-growing kits to children statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1411,1419,1416,313,9],"class_list":["post-132757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-online-instruction","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132763,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132757\/revisions\/132763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}