Animals in Snow | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature Compatible with NGSS

Your students will love a project about animals in the snow and you will be amazed at how easy it is to introduce design challenges into your classroom. Inspire your students to watch nature with biomimicry glasses where the focus is on studying special features and superpowers that animals and plants have spent billions of years developing. By tapping into these secrets we can learn not only about ourselves but also find solutions to problems and ideas for new innovation. By mimicking strategies and functions found in nature, your students can solve design challenges and find hope as well as develop a love for nature.

Animals do the most amazing things in the snow. Some of the things they do can be used to design cities and jumping robots.

These activities are fun and engaging.

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.

What are you waiting for? Purchase this fun, educational and engaging nature inspired resource now and give your students a science activity they'll love.

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This sensational Animals in Snow package contains:

The booklet contains the following animals:

Fox, Polar Bear, Squirrel, Arctic hare, Snowshoe hare, Ptarmigan Seal, Reindeer/Caribou

1. Introduction to biomimicry

2. What I know about foxes

3. Ways to find out about foxes

4. Fox observations

5. Blending in with the white world

6. Invisibility challenge

7. Fox mousing robot

8. Squirrels have great paws

9. Snow digging machine

10. Warm snow city

11. Polar bears are fascinating

12. Feet like a polar bear

13. Picture inspiration - polar bear challenge

14. Ask the Arctic hare questions

15. Ask a Biomimicrist Talkshow

16. Super legs and feet

17. Design a Shoe kit

18. Acrostic poem

19. What if I was a Seal

20. Stiff hairs with good grip!

21. What if I was a seal? Invent a wet suit or a . . .

22. Whiskers

23. Whiskers - story writing

24. I am in awe of reindeer-caribou because. . .

25. Facts about reindeer-caribou

26. Chasing a thief challenge

26. Eyes that change color

27. Mind maps

28. What I have learned

29. Ptamigan Feather Test - How to use in the classroom

30. How to use mind maps in the classroom

31. How to use biomimicry in the classroom

32. Links and book tips

33. 2 posters

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.

Product Format:

This download is a PDF and is formatted in US Letter size. If you would prefer an alternate sizing, A4 size or spelling (colour vs color etc.), please leave me a note in the ‘ask a question section of my store'.

Number of pages - 60