Animal Adaptation Tails | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature PBL

Let this animal adaptation resource push your students' thinking. This unit focuses on the study of Tails and is Montessori-inspired. Your students will have a great time learning about the tail differences and using these differences to solve 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 tails that can be used to study tails such as long tails, short tails, holding tails.

If you've never used biomimicry before this lesson plan will guide you through the process of using biomimicry and steam activities. Using this resource is a great way to inspire students to ask questions, study animals and use creative thinking to explore ideas. Biomimicry is based on the idea that students can take inspiration from nature when solving problems. Your students will love learning and exploring this innovative approach to problem-solving.

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The animal world has developed fascinating tails - long and fluffy, tails that regrow and holding tails. Here they provide inspiration for new ideas. You’ll find everything you need to feel inspired, get creative and engage young students.

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This engaging Animal Adaptation resource contains.

1. What I know about Tails

2. Ways to find out about Tails

3. Animal Observations

4. Tail gallery

5. Acrostic Poem

6. Long tail lemur poem

7. Tail Shape Poems

8. Seahorse & Lemur - Venn diagram

9. Facts about the tail of a lemur

10. What if I had a long tail like the lemur?

11. Lemur tail innovation challenge

12. Bird conversation about tails

13. Bird Detective - Long tails

14. Design something beautiful

15. Jerboa’s tail design challenge

16. Imagine that you are a doctor or vet and you are thinking about an innovation inspired by lizards.

17. How will we communicate in the future? - Wagging tails

18. Wagging dogs' tails - comic strip

19. Why have a Short Tail? - Invent a new sport inspired by short tails

20. Write an exciting and funny story about a pig with a very short curly tail

21. Compare holding tails - Venn diagram

22. Superpower x-ray vision challenge

23. Holding tails poem

24. What if I was a seahorse

25. What if I was a chameleon Invent an energy bar. . .

26. What if I was a monkey? Invent a friend that you never loose. . .

27. Random pictures design challenge

28. Cards with different tails

29. Introduction to biomimicry How to use biomimicry in the classroom

30. Links

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 - 47