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Academic Subject: Engineering & Technology

Creating Local Solutions to Global Problems: Instructional Storyline for the Biomimicry Youth Design ChallengeBiomimicry Institute

This project storyline is a suggested sequence of connected lessons that guides students through a learning journey to complete the Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge.

Curriculum Units

Nature’s Innovations: Animals as EngineersShape of Life

This lesson, with videos, examines how animals have solved engineering problems and how humans have mimicked those solutions. Suitable for Grade 7-12.

Film / TV / Video Lesson Plans

Inspired by NaturePBL Works

This project for 1st grade begins with the driving question "How can observing the natural world help us find solutions to human problems?"

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Wild Buildings and Bridges: Architecture Inspired by NatureEtta Kaner and Carl Wiens

This book for kids age 8-12, celebrates examples of nature's influence on building and bridge designs all over the world and includes simple activities that help illustrate some concepts.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Books

Business Innovation and Solutions Through BiomimicryMontana Natural History Center

This video features professor Jakki Mohr discussing ways to connect business and nature through biomimicry.

Gretchen Hooker

Film / TV / Video

STEM Activity for 1st Grade: Nature-Inspired DesignDavid Lee EdTech

This video describes a project in which students used design thinking and nature inspired design to engineer a tool for a family activity.

Gretchen Hooker

Film / TV / Video

Powers of Ten: Blue Morpho ButterflyNational Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a frequently referenced example of structural color. This lesson plan explores the structure and possible biomimetic applications.

Wild-Inspired Robotic ArmsPBS LearningMedia and NOVA

A video excerpted from NOVA: “Making Stuff Wilder,” provided with a background essay, accompanying classroom project guide, and discussion questions for grades 6-12.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Film / TV / Video

Biomes and BiomimicryDiscovery Education

In this activity, students work in teams and use biomimicry to build an Adaptation Station that will enhance life for humans living in a specific environment.

Gretchen Hooker

Biomimicry: The “Natural” Intersection of Biology and EngineeringCeleste Nicholas & Jeffrey Peterson

An article detailing a biomimicry engineering project for middle school students. Provided with NGSS alignments (MS-ETS1-1 and MS-LS4-6) by curators at NSTA.

Gretchen Hooker

Articles / Reports Lesson Plans

“Trait Mountain” STEM UnitSTEM Roots

This three-week life science themed unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for first grade—including a comprehensive lesson on biomimicry aligned to NGSS 1-LS1-1.

Curriculum Units

Implementing Biomimicry and Sustainable Design with an Emphasis on the Application of Ecological PrinciplesVanderbilt University

In this collection of lessons high school students study ecological relationships in the Sonoran Desert, examine species adaptations, and then apply what they have learned in a design challenge.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

It’s in the Bag: Engineering BioInspired GearMuseum of Science, Boston

Created for after school and camp programs, this unit takes students through a bio-inspired engineering design challenge.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Structural BiomaterialsJulian Vincent

An introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology.

“Who Is Your Champion?”Caryn Walker, Roberta L. Ethington, and Alyssa Y. Stark

This article for teachers outlines a series of upper elementary lessons on structure and function, with an extension lesson that incorporates related engineering design. Provided with NGSS alignments (4-LS1-1) by curators at NSTA.

Gretchen Hooker

Articles / Reports Lesson Plans

Mother Nature’s ShoesSciGirls

In this episode from the PBS series SciGirls, nature’s strategies inspire a group of friends to design a safer shoe for walking on icy streets. An accompanying activity teaches students about friction.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Film / TV / Video

Bio-Inspired Design ProjectThe Kids' Science Challenge

A collection of lessons created in conjunction with the “2009 Kids’ Science Challenge."

Gretchen Hooker

Just Passing Through: Designing Model MembranesMuseum of Science, Boston

This unit, from the Engineering Is Elementary series, introduces elementary students to bio-inspired engineering.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Biomimicry & Science: Applying Nature’s StrategiesBiomimicry Institute & EcoRise

A high school science curriculum that reinforces core concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics, and includes a biomimicry design challenge.

Curriculum Units

Engineering Inspired by NatureThe Center for Learning with Nature

An award-winning, standards-aligned engineering curriculum for middle and high school.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Creating Local Solutions to Global Problems: Instructional Storyline for the Biomimicry Youth Design ChallengeBiomimicry Institute

This project storyline is a suggested sequence of connected lessons that guides students through a learning journey to complete the Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge.

Curriculum Units

Nature’s Innovations: Animals as EngineersShape of Life

This lesson, with videos, examines how animals have solved engineering problems and how humans have mimicked those solutions. Suitable for Grade 7-12.

Film / TV / Video Lesson Plans

Inspired by NaturePBL Works

This project for 1st grade begins with the driving question "How can observing the natural world help us find solutions to human problems?"

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Wild Buildings and Bridges: Architecture Inspired by NatureEtta Kaner and Carl Wiens

This book for kids age 8-12, celebrates examples of nature's influence on building and bridge designs all over the world and includes simple activities that help illustrate some concepts.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Books

Business Innovation and Solutions Through BiomimicryMontana Natural History Center

This video features professor Jakki Mohr discussing ways to connect business and nature through biomimicry.

Gretchen Hooker

Film / TV / Video

STEM Activity for 1st Grade: Nature-Inspired DesignDavid Lee EdTech

This video describes a project in which students used design thinking and nature inspired design to engineer a tool for a family activity.

Gretchen Hooker

Film / TV / Video

Powers of Ten: Blue Morpho ButterflyNational Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a frequently referenced example of structural color. This lesson plan explores the structure and possible biomimetic applications.

Wild-Inspired Robotic ArmsPBS LearningMedia and NOVA

A video excerpted from NOVA: “Making Stuff Wilder,” provided with a background essay, accompanying classroom project guide, and discussion questions for grades 6-12.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Film / TV / Video

Biomes and BiomimicryDiscovery Education

In this activity, students work in teams and use biomimicry to build an Adaptation Station that will enhance life for humans living in a specific environment.

Gretchen Hooker

Biomimicry: The “Natural” Intersection of Biology and EngineeringCeleste Nicholas & Jeffrey Peterson

An article detailing a biomimicry engineering project for middle school students. Provided with NGSS alignments (MS-ETS1-1 and MS-LS4-6) by curators at NSTA.

Gretchen Hooker

Articles / Reports Lesson Plans

“Trait Mountain” STEM UnitSTEM Roots

This three-week life science themed unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for first grade—including a comprehensive lesson on biomimicry aligned to NGSS 1-LS1-1.

Curriculum Units

Implementing Biomimicry and Sustainable Design with an Emphasis on the Application of Ecological PrinciplesVanderbilt University

In this collection of lessons high school students study ecological relationships in the Sonoran Desert, examine species adaptations, and then apply what they have learned in a design challenge.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

It’s in the Bag: Engineering BioInspired GearMuseum of Science, Boston

Created for after school and camp programs, this unit takes students through a bio-inspired engineering design challenge.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Structural BiomaterialsJulian Vincent

An introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology.

“Who Is Your Champion?”Caryn Walker, Roberta L. Ethington, and Alyssa Y. Stark

This article for teachers outlines a series of upper elementary lessons on structure and function, with an extension lesson that incorporates related engineering design. Provided with NGSS alignments (4-LS1-1) by curators at NSTA.

Gretchen Hooker

Articles / Reports Lesson Plans

Mother Nature’s ShoesSciGirls

In this episode from the PBS series SciGirls, nature’s strategies inspire a group of friends to design a safer shoe for walking on icy streets. An accompanying activity teaches students about friction.

Gretchen Hooker

Activities Film / TV / Video

Bio-Inspired Design ProjectThe Kids' Science Challenge

A collection of lessons created in conjunction with the “2009 Kids’ Science Challenge."

Gretchen Hooker

Just Passing Through: Designing Model MembranesMuseum of Science, Boston

This unit, from the Engineering Is Elementary series, introduces elementary students to bio-inspired engineering.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

Biomimicry & Science: Applying Nature’s StrategiesBiomimicry Institute & EcoRise

A high school science curriculum that reinforces core concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics, and includes a biomimicry design challenge.

Curriculum Units

Engineering Inspired by NatureThe Center for Learning with Nature

An award-winning, standards-aligned engineering curriculum for middle and high school.

Gretchen Hooker

Curriculum Units

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