Bats | Science Halloween Nature Inspired Medical Applications Biomimicry

Halloween is an exciting time - make sure that your students are learning with this eye-opening resource. This unit celebrates bats as the remarkable and fascinating mammals that they are by using this Biomimicry product. Bats are amazing creatures that sometimes have a bad reputation. Here they provide inspiration for new ideas, focusing on medical applications. This is a lesson plan that will guide you through the process of using biomimicry and steam activities to inspire students to ask questions, study bats and use creative thinking to explore ideas.

These activities are fun and captivating.

Feel inspired, Be Creative and Make Change.

Some bats species have healing skins which is a very useful inspiration for medical applications such as skin healing plasters. There are bats that scientists are studying to gain insight into the macular disease. Join thousands of teachers who have discovered the benefits of studying nature in the classroom.

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This awesome Bat package contains:

1. Short introduction to biomimicry

2. Ways to find out about bats

3. Interesting things about bats

4. Echolocation in caves

5. Bat anatomy

6. Flexible wings

7. Ideas for healing skin

8. Honduran white bats

9. Tent-making bats

10. Yellow ears, face, nose, legs, and wings - macular disease

11. Explore how studying bats can help humans

12. Fruit bats

13. Nocturnal nuisances or fascinating friends?

14. Bumblebee bats

15. Hanging upside down

16. Questions for a vampire bat

17. Myths and vampire bats

18. Are bats a nuisance?

19. Feel inspired, Be Creative, Make a Change - Use random inspiration to invent something inspired by bats.

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 - 24