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Animal Adaptations & Engineering Design: Lesson 04: Building with Biomimicry

Animal Adaptations & Engineering Design: Lesson 04: Building with Biomimicry
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Beyond Benign
Beyond Benign, Inc.
Annette Sebuyira
Retired K-12 Educator | Beyond Benign, Inc.
A slide that reads 3rd Grade Green Chemistry: Animal Adaptations &Engineering Design
Summary
Using biomimicry for ideas, scientists and engineers can create sustainable solutions for a vast range of problems. Scientists consider how plants and animals create a material or perform a process, and engineers then use that information to create inventions that are scalable to meet the needs of people
Keywords
Sustainable Solutions
Biomimicry
Animal Adaptations
Engineering design
Scalable Inventions.

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Green Chemistry Principles
Waste Prevention
Designing Safer Chemicals
Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries
Use of Renewable Feedstocks
Design for Degradation
Real-Time Pollution Prevention
U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
No Poverty
Zero Hunger
Quality Education
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Reduced Inequalities
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Responsible Consumption and Production
Climate Action
Life on Land
Partnerships for the Goals
NGSS Standards, if applicable
3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of a problem.
Learning Goals/Student Objectives
• Gather information using various informational resources on possible solutions to a design problem.
• Design a solution that reduces the damage caused by weather to a shelter.
• Evaluate their shelter design prototype.
Common pedagogies covered
Blended learning
Collaborative/cooperative learning
Context-based learning
Game-based learning
Hands-on learning
Problem-based learning
Student-centered learning
Time required (if applicable)
30-minutes

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Annette Sebuyira
Safety Precautions, Hazards, and Risk Assessment
Clean and wash hands and work space before and after activity.
Teacher Recommendations or Piloting Data (if available)
• Depending on your class, you may wish to allow students to choose their extreme weather conditions, or you can assign the entire class the same weather conditions.
• Though it is not written in the procedure, you may wish to have the students each write a paragraph about their shelter to explain their designs. This could then be used for assessment.

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building_with_biomimicry-1.docx
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• The Engineering Process: Crash Course Kids #12.2 (5-minute video)
Biomimicry: Natural Designs