Online Teaching Resources
Follow the links below to find the best websites for teaching about mushrooms. In the list below, you'll find awesome professional websites, photography, directories to more mushroom websites, Tom Volk's novel mushroom of the month, and information about truffles, lichens and slime molds. These resources are designed as a starting place to get students interested in learning more about fungi.
Professional Sites
- Amanitas: Rod Tulloss
- Boletaceae: Roy Halling
- The Fifth Kingdom
- Fungi Growing on Wood: Emberger, Gary
- Index Fungorum
- MushroomExpert
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- NY Botanical Garden Herbarium
- Pacific NorthWest Key Council keys
- Russula News: Bart Buyck
- Tom Volk's Fungi
- Website on Fungi: George Barron
General
- Acta Fungorum (Italy)
- British Mycological Society: free resource for teachers to download material on fungi
- Encyclopedia of Life/Fungi
- Fun Facts About Fungi
- Fungi For Fun
- Fungi Magazine
- FungiPhotos and Mushroom University
- Gary Lincoff's Pages (NEMF)
- Gary Lincoff's website
- Lichens of North America
- Mushroom Observer
- MushroomTheJournal
- MykoWeb
- MyxoWeb - a virtual field guide to myxomycetes
- North American Mushroom Basics
- North American Truffling Society
- NorthEast Mycological Federation
- Paul Stamets: Fungi Perfecti
- Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month
Search Engines
- Gateway to 21st Century Skills (search on keyword: mushrooms)
- Google Directory: Mycology
- Science Search Directory: Mycology
