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

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