Architecture & Design | PBL Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature STEAM

Designing, building and making things capture children’s imagination. This resource is grounded in current ideas about ways that we can use nature as inspiration to create smart cities. Students learn to explore dreams and use these dreams to solve problems. 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 animals and plants, and use creative thinking to explore ideas.

How can you use a lotus flower to make a cosy reading nook? Why would you want to build a floating city? And how can an ant be used to build a huge garbage machine?

These activities are fun and engaging. And great brain workout!

Contact me at maliasa@live.com if you have any questions, thanks.

This inviting Architecture & Design package contains:

1. Getting Started Guide

2. What is a smart city?

3. Smart Vs Green Smart - Venn Diagram

4. How can you build a Smart City?

5. Challenges in Smart Cities Designs

6. Treescrapers!

7. Draw a Model of Your Green City of the Future!

8. How can a frog rest for hours on a lily pad?

9. Design a floating city

10. Activity - Water Lily floating city

11. Reading or Relaxing Nook - Lotus Flower

12. Calla Lily Spiral Inspiration

13. How to Save Building Materials like a Honeybee

14. Buzzing Skyscrapers

15. Draw a House Plan!

16. Acrostic Snail Poem

17. Snails & Slugs

18. Carry your house - Imagination Challenge!

19. Round Rooms Everywhere!

20. Design a house inspired by snails and shells.

21. Slugs & Slime

22. Futuristic car

23. Super-Slug Car Story

24. Story Prompt

25. Unique Bony Bridge

26. Inspired by tiny hardworking ants

27. Cool House - Termite Mound

28. Design a Tree House

29. Breathing Skin

30. Share your idea with the world

31. Fairy Rings - also included in the resource about Plants & Fungi

32. Short Assessment

33. Inspiration

34. Three Poster - White Background -

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 - 45 - Only counting pages used by students & teachers