Biomimicry and the Built Environment

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Biomimicry and the Built Environment
Introduction to Biomimicry for Middle School
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Where do ideas come from?
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Biomimicry

• Bio life
• Mimicry to copy or emulate

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Biomimicry is learning from nature how to solve
human challenges and improve our world.
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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
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1. What do you want your solution to do?

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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
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1. What do you want your solution to do?
2. Biologize the question.

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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
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1. What do you want your solution to do?
2. Biologize the question.
3. Find the best natural models.

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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
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• What do you want your solution to do?
• Biologize the question.
• Find the best natural models.
• think about habitats

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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
Guide

• What do you want your solution to do?
• Biologize the question.
• Find the best natural models.
• think about habitats
• lots of ways to find information

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Learning from Natures Genius A Step-by-Step
Guide

• What do you want your solution to do?
• Biologize the question.
• Find the best natural models.
• think about habitats
• lots of ways to find information
• look for champions

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Bloodstream
Lungs
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So, what does this mean to YOU?
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T-shirt that wicks sweat like a horned lizard
Vitamins based on the diet of forest apes
Fasteners that stick like burrs
Shoe soles that grip like a mountain goat
Underwear that breathe like stomates of plants
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Clothing colored without dyes like a butterfly or
a peacock
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Sandwich bags that biodegrade like tethers of
blue mussel and zip closed like a feather
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Computers as fast as neurons
Energy the way electric eels or leaves make it
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Systems interconnected like trees in a old-growth
forest
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What possibilities can you imagine?
What creatures will inspire you?
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Can YOU look to nature for inspiration?
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Here are Some Ways to Start

• Take a Hike!
• Sit quietly outside and OBSERVE
• Ask questions in Biology class
• Stay in School
• Read books about the natural world
• Do research on your favorite creature and all its
  cool functions, for yourself!
• Go to college and study Biology and Design

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Never stop asking Why or How
Its your future.
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