Birds' Feet & Legs | Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature Compatible with NGSS

Looking for an enjoyable and engaging animal adaptation resource? This unit focuses on the study of Birds' Feet & Legs and is Montessori-inspired. Your students will have a great time learning about the feet and leg 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 bird's feet that can be used to study feet such as swimming feet, perching feet, and climbing feet.

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This awesome Bird package contains:

1. Introduction to biomimicry

2. Observation birds

3. Acrostic poem

4. Booby webbed feet

5. Make up a dance - invent a dancing robot or toy

6. Invent a toy or a swimming gear

7. Flamingos' legs and feet - furniture challenge

8. Robot that can walk in mud

9. Design a playground with a carousel inspired by parrots

10. Owl observations

11. Design a flying toy that can pick up things.

12. Story writing - boy or girl who can turn his or her toes around at will.

13. What if you could run like an ostrich?

14. Random Inspiration game

15. Cards with different types of feet

16. How can you use biomimicry in the classroom

17. Links and book tips

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 Letter size or spelling (colour vs color etc.), please leave me a note in the ‘ask a question section of my store'.

Number of pages - 41