101816 Find Mushrooms (MA)

Connie Handel, an outdoor educator with the University of Illinois Extension, walks with a group of children and parents with the DeKalb County Home Educators group on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at the Russell Woods Forest Preserve in Genoa. The group was out collecting mushrooms to study them under microscopes at the Natural Resource Education Center.

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George Tikkun of DeKalb, 7, focuses a microscope on a mushroom that he and other children within the DeKalb County Home Educators group collected at the Russell Woods Forest Preserve on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 in Genoa. The home schooling group meets for educational excursions once per month on the third Tuesday.

DeKalb County Home Educators group meetup at Russell Woods Forest Preserve