Perspectives: Grades 5-6
Learning Objectives 1. Think about and discuss the impacts of climate change 2. Understand the impact climate change could have on humans and other living…
Lesson Tag: natural solutions
Carbon, Coral and Concrete
Lesson Description By focusing on coral reef’s ability to collect carbonate and calcium ions from seawater and construct carbonate skeletons. Students are encouraged to notice…
Let’s make it stick – Nature’s Adhesives
Lesson Description Exploring human-made adhesives and adhesion strategies found in nature while learning about the inter molecular forces and chemical properties of adhesives. Exploring van…
Creating Nature Inspired Ideas
Lesson Description In this three-part lesson, students begin to generate design ideas from the biological strategies and patterns they discovered in previous lessons.In the first…
Exploring Nature’s Patterns
Lesson Description In this lesson, students learn about patterns, the different ways patterns appear in nature, and how being observant of patterns can support biomimetic…
Exploring Nature’s Solutions
Lesson Description This three-part lesson begins with an outdoor experience in which students practice observing nature with a curious mind and begin speculating about the…
Swarm Intelligence and Smart Systems
Lesson Description In this lesson, students learn about how simple organisms can solve complex problems via a collective intelligence known as swarm intelligence.They then explore…
Catching the Fog
Lesson Description In this lesson, students learn about adaptations that allow Namib Desert beetles to harvest water vapour from the air in order to survive…
The Nature of Robots
Lesson Description In this lesson, students learn that, contrary to many examples from movies and pop culture, most robots do not look like humans. Students…
Elephant Hot Spots
Lesson Description In this lesson, students learn how African elephants have thermal windows, or “hot spots,” that help them thermoregulate by radiating excess thermal energy.…