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.
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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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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High Speed is Cool!
This ETP is designed to provide teachers with a couple sample lessons to use for incorporating high speed video cameras into their classroom. These 2 lessons will involve both the use of high speed cameras and the analysis of footage obtained from them.
If the Geologic Time Scale had an Instagram..
The Payne Paleobiology Lab at Stanford University focuses on extinction risks in marine animals.
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History of Life Exploration
This lesson uses a historical context to provide a foundational, scientific basis of Earth’s history for high school students. Students will conduct individual internet research to learn when and under what circumstances events in Earth’s history took place.
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Home Sweet Home - Looking into our Ecosystem through a Little Lens and a Global Lens
This Education Transfer Plan (ETP) will introduce biology students to evolution’s ability to create rich and complex structural and behavioral characteristics among a variety of species and how these special features of the natural world are inspiring engineers to design new materials and process
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