Animal Adaptation Mammals' Feet Legs | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature

Looking for an animal adaptation resource? This unit focuses on the study of Mammals' Feet & Legs and is Montessori-inspired. Your students will have a great time learning about running legs and swimming feet and using these differences to design challenges. Purchase this product now and watch your students grow in their understanding of animal adaptations while inspiring them to ask questions about the natural world.

There are cards with photos of different types of mammal feet that can be used to study feet such as swimming feet, running legs, and hopping legs feet.

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This engaging Mammal package contains:

1. Introduction to biomimicry

2. Mammal observations

3. Feet & Legs Gallery

4. Acrostic Poems - Feet & Legs

5. Compare & Contrast - Venn Diagram

6. Cats' claws challenge

7. Long curved claws - sloths

8. Design a playground inspired by sloths

9. Two Big & Heavy Animals Elephant, Rinoceros

10. Design something powerful - Armadillo

11. Invent a digging robot

12. Quick Hide - Armadillo inspired handbag, food package . . .

13. An extra finger - Panda

14. What if I could run like a cheetah?

15. Design challenge - Cheetah

16. Story writing

17. Jumping legs – Hopping desert rodent

18. Design challenge - Jerboa

19. Design a poster

20. Cards with different types of mammals' feet and legs.

21. Short Assessment

22. How to use biomimicry in the classroom

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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• 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 36