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Biomimicry: Overview
Created by The North Carolina School of Science and Math. Copyright 2012. North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
What is it?
Biomimicry
Examples of Biomimicry
Boat Hulls Shaped like Water Striders
Boat picture: “University of Iowa Rowing, Back and White highlighted with yellow,” by Jon Fravel. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfravel Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Bug picture: Max Westby (flicker) http://www.flickr.com/photos/max_westby/36197561/ Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Examples of Biomimicry
Synthetic Silk Fibers Spiders’ Silk
Synthetic Silk Fiber picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silk_Sari_Weaving_at_Kanchipuram,_Tamil_Nadu.jpgSpider picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Araneus_diadematus_underside_2.jpg
Examples of Biomimicry
Ice Axe Woodpecker
Ice Axe picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_axe_Stubai_1970s.JPGWoodpecker picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ladder-back_Woodpecker_on_Cactus.jpg
Examples of Biomimicry
Velcro Cockleburs
Velcro picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velcro_Hooks.jpgCockleburs picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bur_Macro_BlackBg.jpg
Examples of Biomimicry
Bathing Suit Material Shark Skin
Swimmer picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swimmer_-_0849.jpgShark: Albert Kok. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiger_shark.jpg licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license
Examples of Biomimicry
Airplane Bird
Plane picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Air_Berlin_B737-700_Dreamliner_D-ABBN.jpgBird picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_in_flight_wings_spread.jpg
Other Examples?
Brainstorm with your group…
Biomimicry: Research
Strategies for Reading and Summarizing: 1) Read the title 2) Read the headings3) Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph4) Read the entire article and CIRCLE key words you do not
understand (then look up the words)5) Re-read the first sentence of each paragraph6) Identify: important nouns and verbs in the article7) Summarize the article8) Check your summary to make sure you include the main
ideas