Biomimicks aren't Gimmicks
Students will learn how biomimicry is used to create devices to assist in mitigating climate change, and will develop a model showing how smart manufacturing and biomimicry could create a sustainable solution.
Tardigrades
Students take on the role of a astrobiologist whose mission is to learn about extremophiles and the resiliency of tardigrades.
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Stanford Biomimicry Challenge: Crisis Interrupt
The goal of this ETP is to expose students to the Biomimicry process of using innovation from nature to solve problems.
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Coral Bleaching: Responding to Stress Factors
Climate change and symbiotic relationships are important elements of the work in my fellowship position with the John R.
Mom! Dad! Why Can’t You Leave Me Alone?
In this lesson, “Why Can’t You Leave Me Alone?” students explore the selective pressures that led to the evolution of parenting behavior in Dentrobatidae, or Poison Dart Frogs.
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Stanford Biomimicry Challenge: Bioneer Tower
The goal of this ETP is to expose students to the Biomimicry process of using innovation from nature to solve problems. We will be using AskNature.org to identify a design principal (function in AskNature.org), which will be applied in the construction of a tower.
Amazing Adaptations!
Amazing Adaptations is an in-class group activity that challenges students to think about how animals evolved their diverse adaptations via natural selection.
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Modeling Biomimicry
Biomimicry is innovation designed by nature. It is a fast growing field that allows engineers, architects, pharmacists, biotechnologists, transportation planners, telecommunication experts, etc., to look into the biological world for solutions to common design problems.
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Stickleback Evolution
The goal of this laboratory activity is for students to analyze sample specimens from populations of stickleback fish looking at specific characteristics such as spine length and armor plating to interpret the conditions driving evolution.