Sea Life | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature Compatible with NGSS

Use this sea life resource to provide your students with an ocean of understanding and inspiration! Let your students enter the fascinating world of seahorses, fish and whales. The aim is to inspire students to ask questions and study sea life to design and solve problems. This biomimicry resource is easy to use and your students will love to research sea life and come up with unique solutions to the challenges.

Feel inspired, Be creative and Make Change.

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This engaging Sea Life package contains:

1. Introduction to biomimicry

2. What I know

3. How I know

4. A seahorse - has, can, is

5. Interesting things about seahorses. . .

6. Seahorse poem

7. What if I was a seahorse

8. Seahorse adventure

9. A coral - has, can, is

10. Coral house skyscraper

11. Describe a fish

12. Design a fish robo

13. Tired parrotfish

14. Fish cocoon tent

15. Acrostic poem - shark

16. Bumps on sharks

17. I love whales because. . .

18. Design challenge whales and manta rays

19. Sea cucumber - design a vacuum cleaner or. . .

19. Octopus dance - robo

20. Octopus skin - feel light

20. A jellyfish - has, can, is

21. Jellyfish city or robo

22. Nudibranch gallery

23. A seastar - has, is, can

24. What if you had several arms?

25. Design a robot with several arms

26. Write a story

27. Design Challenge - seastars

28. What I have learned

29. How to use biomimicry in the classroom.

30. Links and book tips

31. 3 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.

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Number of pages - 60