The Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters USB has prepared another in a series of educational programmes for children's students, this time focusing on the topic "Fungi we know." Before our juniors became real mycologists, they had to collect stickers for the "mushroom pupils" from different fungi on their journey of discovery. In addition to basic identification and classification of mushrooms, into edible and inedible, the children learned what parts mushrooms are made up of and what these parts are called. From the mycological vocabulary, we included the mysterious mycelium, mycorrhiza, or forest internet, and information about the zombie fungus, which controls the behavior of ants of the genus Camponotus. Like good researchers, we examined fungi and moulds in detail and under the microscope. We also included art activities, with children creating pictures from spore impressions or their own mushroomarium. Among the outdoor activities we can mention forest basketball, magic with mushrooms or truffle hunting. Our Fall Children's University was successfully completed by 22 graduates who took home certificates, crocheted pop-it mushrooms and toasted with real homemade kombucha.
