Biomimicry and Science: Applying Nature’s Strategies
Summary
This lesson introduces students to a design thinking process that can help them apply principles of biomimicry to address critical real-world problems related to important social or environmental issues. It sets the stage for a biomimicry design capstone project and/or participation in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. In this first lesson, students explore the concept of design thinking and how it can be helpful in inspiring innovations. They also learn a design process that consists of five steps and integrates principles of biomimicry. Then they form teams and begin thinking about a design problem they would like to solve using biomimicry.
Modules
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Introduction to Biomimicry Lesson
This lesson introduces students to the concept of biomimicry. In the first session, students participate in a presentation that invites them to question where ideas come from and how our built world was imagined and constructed. Students discuss why designers are studying nature’s solutions and identify some of nature’s design…
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Module 1: Chemistry and Biomimicry
This lesson introduces students to a design thinking process that can help them apply principles of biomimicry to address critical real-world problems related to important social or environmental issues. It sets the stage for a biomimicry design capstone project and/or participation in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. In this first…
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Module 2: Physics and Biomimicry
This lesson introduces students to a design thinking process that can help them apply principles of biomimicry to address critical real-world problems related to important social or environmental issues. It sets the stage for a biomimicry design capstone project and/or participation in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. In this first…
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Module 3: Biology and Biomimicry
In this lesson, students learn about how simple organisms can solve complex problems via a collective intelligence known as swarm intelligence. The lesson begins with an active simulation in which students see first-hand what can happen when a group follows simple rules. They then explore the concept of swarm intelligence…
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