Science Insects | PBL Lapbook Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature

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Your students will love a project about insects and you will be amazed at how easy it is to introduce design challenges into your classroom. This resource includes a lesson plan that will guide you through the process of using biomimicry glasses where the focus is on studying special features and superpowers that insects have spent billions of years developing. The aim is to inspire students to ask questions, study animals and use their knowledge to design toys and solve problems.
Enter the fascinating world of insects - from grasshoppers to shimmering fireflies!
These activities are fun and engaging.
Feel inspired, Be Creative and Make Change.
This resource has been prepared so that your students can use it on digital devices. I have selected suitable slides for you, you need to insert text boxes and you can also add instructions for your students.
Contact me at maliasa@live.com if you have any questions, thanks.
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This eye-opening Insect package contains:
1. Introduction to biomimicry
2. What we know and what we want to know
3. What I know about insects
4. Ways to find out about insects
5. I Love Dragonflies because. . .
6. How dragonflies and damselflies wings get their patterns
7. What if I was a dragonfly or a damselfly
8. Add extra to the ordinary! A dragonfly robot
9. Insect inspired Invention mind map
10. Things I Love about beetles and bugs
11. Acrostic poem
12. Color-in - bugs and beetles are not tasty
13. Design Challenge— Ladybugs
14. Light Dance—Fireflies mind map
15. Random words - fireflies - cartoon
16. Imagination challenge - grasshopper - jumping machine
17. Design word challenge
18. Extra extra read all about it!
19. Praying mantis - build a machine that can grab things quickly
20. Gallery of Flies
21. Writing Challenge
22. Links and book tips
23. Biomimicry lapbook
24. 3 posters
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Why am I qualified to write these biomimicry resources? I was a member of BEN - Biomimicry Education Network - and a curator of educational resources at BEN. I am the author of the book Biomimicry with Theo & Tuva: Nature spotting inspires wild ideas. In 2015, I completed a course in Biomimicry: A Sustainable Design Methodology at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I took part in the Biomimicry Design Challenge in 2021.
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