Science Bears | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature Compatible with NGSS

Your students will LOVE designing a menu inspired by grizzly bears! Learning about bears with a biomimicry lens will provide inspiration for creative thinking that can lead to wonderful and exciting ideas and insights.

Bears are extraordinary animals. Some bears climb trees others make a wide range of interesting noises. Use the observations and information to invent something fantastic. It is fascinating to watch as your students grow in confidence in using nature as a stepping-stone to solve design challenges.

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This engaging Bear package contains:

1. Why Teach Biomimicry

2. Getting Started Guide

3. How to Observe and Collect Information about bears

4. Bears Are Can Have

5. Polar bears are fascinating because. . .

6. What if I was a polar bear? Invent something fluffy and warm inspired by the fur.

7. Feet like a polar bear. Use pictures as inspiration to invent something.

8. Invent a robo using the polar bear as our inspiration.

9. What do grizzly bears eat?

10. Make a menu inspired by grizzly bears. Invent a glove that selects food. . .

11. Great at digging - design a gardening/farming tool or machine inspired by grizzly bears.

12. Sleeping grizzly bears. Invent a sleeping bag.

13. Giant Pandas are great because. . .

14. Glove or toy inspired by giant pandas.

15. Long Tongue - Sun Bears

16. Spectacled bear - Log peeling robo, Cool sunglasses

17. Sloth bear - Singing pavement

18. How to use biomimicry in the classroom - inspiration and ideas

19. Links to videos and information

20. Poster

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 - 35