Deals with a fungus that plays an important role in the forests of Asia as a decomposer of recently dead trees and in agriculture as an important edible mushroom. Describes how to culture these mushrooms including materials, conditions, and troubleshooting. Gives ideas for classroom activities. (CW)

Introduced is a project for constructing a can device for a race. Discussed are some applications for teaching physical science. A diagram of a can device is included. (YP)

Electrospinning has been used to create nanofibers for filtration devices, tissue engineering, and protective clothing. Although electrospinning is now widely studied, because of the expensive equipment required and the advanced nature of this topic, it is not commonly found in high school science labs. Through grants from the Ohio State…

Indicates how the gas laws can be derived and taught to high school and college physical science classes by using the guided-discovery method. (LS)