Moldy

This week we took an afternoon and did some learning about rotting things. My boys like gross things, so they were all over this. I chose this topic to focus on after Moses started asking questions about mold and how things rot.

Things Rotting and Mold and Fungi Growing

• Fruit Life
• Rotting Watermelon
• Apple Rotting
• Fruit and Vegetable Decomposition
• Tomato Rotting
• Rotting Pumpkin
• Rotting Bananas
• Tea Molding
• Molding Bread
• Bread Roll Molding
• Fungus Mold Growth
• Mold Growth on Muffin
• Bread and Tomato Rotting
• Fungi Growing
• Mushroom Madness

Not for the squeamish.

• Gecko eaten by ants
• Cockroaches inside a loaf of bread
• Rotting Rat Road Kill

Moldy Experiment

We started an experiment, but have nothing to report yet. We wanted to see how fast bread would mold in different environments. Here are the materials we used.

• 3 slices bread
• 3 ziploc bags
• freezer
• fridge
• our counter

We put one slice of bread in each bag. Then we put one bag on the counter, one bag in the fridge, and one bag in the freezer. It has been five days and there has not been any change in the bread yet.

Paperwork

Here  is a wonderful worksheet that you can use with your kids.

• What A Load of Rot

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