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STEM - Biomimicry for Young Children - Robots
Robots capture children’s imagination. Self-driving cars, robot bees that pollinate flowers, and jumping kangaroo robots may be part of our future. With robots, children can learn to explore dreams and use these dreams to solve problems. Biomimicry is also an exciting way to inspire young children to be creative, curious and to observe the world. By combining these two topics, projects that use a problem-solving approach have been designed. The projects are intended to inspire a playful and creative approach towards robots and biomimicry. Children come to understand how animals and plants can be used as a platform upon which ideas and inventions can be developed.
1. Introduction to Biomimicry and What we know and what we want to know
2. Things I love about robos
3. How can you build a robo that can fly. . .
4. Study animals and design a flying robo
5. What do you need to build your robot?
6. Write a story about a robo in space
9. Plan your robo story
10. Questions for a robo story
11. Write your robo story
12. How can you build a robo that can pick up things. . .
13. Study animals and design a robo
14. Write a story about a robo with several arms or. . .
15. What if you could design a robo that can grow like a tree . . .
16. Study animals and design a robo
17. Steps to build a robo
18. What if you could design a robo that can jump. . .
19. Study animals and design a robo
20. Acrostic poem
21. What if you could build a robo that can crawl. . .
22. Study animals and design a robo
23. Describe your animal
24. Picture gallery of robos
25. Sea Lionbot Poem
26. How can you build a robo that can swim. . .
27. Study animals and design a robo
28. Colorful fish
29. Reflection on learning
30. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
31. Questions cards - how to design robos
32. Links and book tips
33. 3 posters Colour as well as White background
TES
Be a Curious Climate Change Detective - Explore Cool Questions & Hot Answers
Ready to tackle one of the most debated and difficult situation that face the earth – climate change. There are lots of things to explore when thinking about climate change.
As the earth gets warmer and warmer the causes, mechanisms, or impacts of climate change on our planet is something that is important to discuss with young children. It is also crucial to explore solutions and ideas that can help us build a better future.
The package contains:
1. What do you know? What do you want to learn?
2. What is the difference between weather and climate?
3. Ask the Penguin questions about climate change
4. Main Reasons people cause the climate to become warmer
5. What is Global Climate?
6. Imagine that you are a polar bear. . . a coral fish. . .sitting on the moon watching the Earth
7 .Why is the climate changing?
8. Greenhouse effect
9. Greenhouse Gases – What is good? What is the problem?
10. A little extra warming
11. It matters what we do. Work with nature!
12. My action plan
13. Spread the message about climate change
14. Visions of the future. A bright and sunny vision! A little darker vision!
15. Reflection on the learning
16. Question cards - How can I help?
STEM Be an Endangered Animal Detective - Identify and Solve Problems STEM Be an Endangered Animal D
A dive into the world of endangered animals is not always a pleasant journey. This package focuses on exploring possibilities and solutions. A range of animals are used as examples and there are cards that can be used as inspiration for storytelling as well as research.
This package contains:
Introduction - What we know and what we want to know
1. 16 Endangered Animals Cards, 2 blank cards
2. What is the difference between endangered animals and extinct animals?
3. Count me! - Endangered Animal Census
4. Mind Map Endangered Animals - Orangutan plus a blank one
5. Ask the pygmy hippo questions about endangered animals
6. Main reasons people cause other species to become endangered
7. Endangered Animal Dictionary
8. Mind Map Habitat
9. A forest or a burrow?
10. The Amount of Space
11. What if it was possible to improve habitats?
12.Jane Goodall’s Work to Protect Chimpanzees
13.Blue Hyacinth Macaw – Animals as pets
14. Draw a poster
15. Slow loris – Animals as pets
16. Draw a poster
17. Which animals would you save first? Tally
18. My Action Plan to Help
19. Elephants and helmeted hornbills - ivory
20. Plan Your Endangered Animal Story
21. Write an Endangered Animal Story
22. Value of animals - biomimicry
23.The Twelve Months of Endangered Animals Song
24. Dugong robot
25. Animal Poem
26.Some interesting things that I have learned
27. Ideas for crafts
Be a Dinosaur Detective - STEAM, Biomimimicy
Many children are fascinated by the magnificent dinosaurs. They are mysterious and exciting! So this dinosaur unit will surely be a hit with your students.
These activities are a perfect way to think about what information is and how we get information. Palaeontologists do not always agree. A great way to get students excited about science.
One biomimicry activity includes using plant-eating dinosaurs as inspiration for new ideas. Why not grow new teeth?
The package contains:
Introduction to the unit. What we know, What we think we know, What we want to know.
1. What do you know? What do you want to learn?
2. Ways to find out about dinosaurs
3. What if I found an egg
4. When is an egg a dinosaur egg? Make a tally
5. My Dinosaur Egg Gallery
6. Write a story about a paleontologist who finds a dinosaur egg.
7. Dinosaurs - have, are, can. Dinosaurs are cool because. . .
8. Dinosaurs - have, are, can, what if, how, when, where, Dinosaurs are cool because. . .
9. Draw me
10. How do we know dinosaurs existed?
11. Digging for bones
12. Tricky but cool words
13. Ask the Dinosaurs Sparkling Questions
14. What did they look like?
15. My Gallery of Dinosaurs
16. Put up a display at the Dino Museum
17. I am a dinosaur – perhaps!
18. What if you could solve a dino mystery? - Storywriting
19. What if I found a dino baby? - Storywriting
20. Dinosaur or not a dinosaur - What do you think?
21. Shape Poem
22. Carnivore, Herbivore What did Dinosaurs eat?
23. Haunting but beautiful cries! Write a song. Invent an Instrument.
24. Dinosaur bridge
25. Invent a robot, toy, or car.
26. What if you were a dentist? Inspired by plant-eaters
27. Reflection on the learning.
28. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
Be a Dinosaur Detective - STEAM, Biomimimicy
Many children are fascinated by the magnificent dinosaurs. They are mysterious and exciting! So this dinosaur unit will surely be a hit with your students.
These activities are a perfect way to think about what information is and how we get information. Palaeontologists do not always agree. A great way to get students excited about science.
One biomimicry activity includes using plant-eating dinosaurs as inspiration for new ideas. Why not grow new teeth?
The package contains:
Introduction to the unit. What we know, What we think we know, What we want to know.
1. What do you know? What do you want to learn?
2. Ways to find out about dinosaurs
3. What if I found an egg
4. When is an egg a dinosaur egg? Make a tally
5. My Dinosaur Egg Gallery
6. Write a story about a paleontologist who finds a dinosaur egg.
7. Dinosaurs - have, are, can. Dinosaurs are cool because. . .
8. Dinosaurs - have, are, can, what if, how, when, where, Dinosaurs are cool because. . .
9. Draw me
10. How do we know dinosaurs existed?
11. Digging for bones
12. Tricky but cool words
13. Ask the Dinosaurs Sparkling Questions
14. What did they look like?
15. My Gallery of Dinosaurs
16. Put up a display at the Dino Museum
17. I am a dinosaur – perhaps!
18. What if you could solve a dino mystery? - Storywriting
19. What if I found a dino baby? - Storywriting
20. Dinosaur or not a dinosaur - What do you think?
21. Shape Poem
22. Carnivore, Herbivore What did Dinosaurs eat?
23. Haunting but beautiful cries! Write a song. Invent an Instrument.
24. Dinosaur bridge
25. Invent a robot, toy, or car.
26. What if you were a dentist? Inspired by plant-eaters
27. Reflection on the learning.
28. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
Summer Writing - Using Sunny Questions
ummer Writing Using Sunny Questions are fun and engaging activities to keep children writing, thinking and questioning. Shape poems, story writing, as well as lots of questions. Silly questions mixed with questions to enhance learning. Question asking is a great way to find out what you know a subject.
There are questions card that are perfect cards for early finishers but the cards can also be used as conversation starter in the classroom.
Question asking is necessary part of the learning process and it is a great way to spark curiosity and interest.
Duplicates with alternative spelling is provided.
1. Things I Love about Summer
2. I am in awe of summer mornings because. . .
3. What games can I play in the summer rain?
4. Sun-filled words
5. Summer animal words
6. Summer dictionary
7. Summer or sand fairy wish - letter writing
8. Sunny Questions
9. Summer poem
10. Shape poem
11. Surfboard Shape Poem
12. Story writing - beetle
13. What is a snail goes on holiday?
14. Imagination poem - dragonfly
15. 2 "What if" writing prompts
16. How can I build the world's biggest sandcastle?
17. How do you plan a summer party?
18. Imagine that you are a summer detective. Solving mystery
19. Who is hiding?
20. What do you need to pack when you go on a holiday?
21. What if you found a chicken on a surfboard?
22. Who is hiding in the umbrella? Write a comic strip.
23. Question asking cards
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Summer Writing - Using Sunny Questions
Summer Writing Using Sunny Questions are fun and engaging activities to keep children writing, thinking and questioning. Shape poems, story writing, as well as lots of questions. Silly questions mixed with questions to enhance learning. Question asking is a great way to find out what you know a subject.
There are questions card that are perfect cards for early finishers but the cards can also be used as conversation starter in the classroom.
Question asking is necessary part of the learning process and it is a great way to spark curiosity and interest.
Duplicates with alternative spelling is provided.
1. Things I Love about summer
2. I am in awe of summer mornings because. . .
3. What games can I play in the summer rain?
4. Sun-filled words
5. Summer animal words
6. Summer dictionary
7. Summer or sand fairy wish - letter writing
8. Sunny Questions
9. Summer poem
10. Shape poem
11. Surfboard Shape Poem
12. Story writing - beetle
13. What is a snail goes on holiday?
14. Imagination poem - dragonfly
15. 2 "What if" writing prompts
16. How can I build the world's biggest sandcastle?
17. How do you plan a summer party?
18. Imagine that you are a summer detective. Solving mystery
19. Who is hiding?
20. What do you need to pack when you go on a holiday?
21. What if you found a chicken on a surfboard?
22. Who is hiding in the umbrella? Write a comic strip.
23. Question asking cards
STEM - Be a Rabbit Detective - Life Cycle, Biomimicry, Inspiration for Ideas
Rabbits are fluffy with long ears but they are also tremendously interesting. Popular pets and wonderful inspiration for new ideas and innovations!
In this booklet, students are also asked to observe animals with the goal of getting inspiration for new ideas. Hopefully, these activities will make the learning fun and engaging.
This package contains:
1. Cards
2. Can you identify the different stages?
3. Fun facts
4. Rabbit Poem
5. What makes an animal a mammal?
6. Mammal or Non-Mammal - What do you think?
7. Rabbit words - make your own dictionary
8. When is a rabbit a rabbit and not a hare?
9. What do rabbits eat?
10. Ask the rabbit Sparkling Questions
11. Describe rabbit
12. Story writing prompt
13. Excited about jumping!
14. Draw Rabbits
15.Invent a jumping robot or. . .
16. What if you were trapped in a cage with no friends or toys to play with?
17. Use rabbits' ears as inspiration.
18. Reflection - assessment
19. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
STEM - Be a Rabbit Detective - Life Cycle, Biomimicry, Inspiration for Ideas
Rabbits are fluffy with long ears but they are also tremendously interesting. Popular pets and wonderful inspiration for new ideas and innovations!
In this booklet, students are also asked to observe animals with the goal of getting inspiration for new ideas. Hopefully, these activities will make the learning fun and engaging.
This package contains:
1. Cards
2. Can you identify the different stages?
3. Fun facts
4. Rabbit Poem
5. What makes an animal a mammal?
6. Mammal or Non-Mammal - What do you think?
7. Rabbit words - make your own dictionary
8. When is a rabbit a rabbit and not a hare?
9. What do rabbits eat?
10. Ask the rabbit Sparkling Questions
11. Describe rabbit
12. Story writing prompt
13. Excited about jumping!
14. Draw Rabbits
15.Invent a jumping robot or. . .
16. What if you were trapped in a cage with no friends or toys to play with?
17. Use rabbits' ears as inspiration.
18. Reflection - assessment
19. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
TES
Be a Curious Climate Change Detective - Explore Cool Questions & Hot Answers
Ready to tackle one of the most debated and difficult situation that face the earth – climate change. There are lots of things to explore when thinking about climate change.
As the earth gets warmer and warmer the causes, mechanisms, or impacts of climate change on our planet is something that is important to discuss with young children. It is also crucial to explore solutions and ideas that can help us build a better future.
The package contains:
1. What do you know? What do you want to learn?
2. What is the difference between weather and climate?
3. Ask the Penguin questions about climate change
4. Main Reasons people cause the climate to become warmer
5. What is Global Climate?
6. Imagine that you are a polar bear. . . a coral fish. . .sitting on the moon watching the Earth
7 .Why is the climate changing?
8. Greenhouse effect
9. Greenhouse Gases – What is good? What is the problem?
10. A little extra warming
11. It matters what we do. Work with nature!
12. My action plan
13. Spread the message about climate change
14. Visions of the future. A bright and sunny vision! A little darker vision!
15. Reflection on the learning
16. Question cards - How can I help?
TES
STEM - Easter - Cool Chocolate Challenge - Biomimicry
Problem: How to put an end to melting chocolate bunnies and reduce the waste?
This is a fun and imporant challenge! Use ideas from nature to solve some of the problems with melting chocolate bunnies.
1. Problem and plan
2. How does nature?
3. How does nature move from trash to treasure?
4. Where does chocolate come from?
5. What if - Idea 1, 2 and 3
5. Evaluation sheet
6. Reflection on the learning
7. What is biomimicry
There is a colour and black and white copy of each page.
STEM - Biomimicry for Young Children - Robots
Robots capture children’s imagination. Self-driving cars, robot bees that pollinate flowers, and jumping kangaroo robots may be part of our future. With robots, children can learn to explore dreams and use these dreams to solve problems. Biomimicry is also an exciting way to inspire young children to be creative, curious and to observe the world. By combining these two topics, projects that use a problem-solving approach have been designed. The projects are intended to inspire a playful and creative approach towards robots and biomimicry. Children come to understand how animals and plants can be used as a platform upon which ideas and inventions can be developed.
1. Introduction to Biomimicry and What we know and what we want to know
2. Things I love about robos
3. How can you build a robo that can fly. . .
4. Study animals and design a flying robo
5. What do you need to build your robot?
6. Write a story about a robo in space
9. Plan your robo story
10. Questions for a robo story
11. Write your robo story
12. How can you build a robo that can pick up things. . .
13. Study animals and design a robo
14. Write a story about a robo with several arms or. . .
15. What if you could design a robo that can grow like a tree . . .
16. Study animals and design a robo
17. Steps to build a robo
18. What if you could design a robo that can jump. . .
19. Study animals and design a robo
20. Acrostic poem
21. What if you could build a robo that can crawl. . .
22. Study animals and design a robo
23. Describe your animal
24. Picture gallery of robos
25. Sea Lionbot Poem
26. How can you build a robo that can swim. . .
27. Study animals and design a robo
28. Colorful fish
29. Reflection on learning
30. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
31. Questions cards - how to design robos
32. Links and book tips
33. 3 posters Color as well as White background
Be a Curious Climate Change Detective - Explore Cool Questions & Hot Answers
Ready to tackle one of the most debated and difficult situation that face the earth – climate change. There are lots of things to explore when thinking about climate change.
As the earth gets warmer and warmer the causes, mechanisms, or impacts of climate change on our planet is something that is important to discuss with young children. It is also crucial to explore solutions and ideas that can help us build a better future.
The package contains:
1. What do you know? What do you want to learn?
2. What is the difference between weather and climate?
3. Ask the Penguin questions about climate change
4. Main Reasons people cause the climate to become warmer
5. What is Global Climate?
6. Imagine that you are a polar bear. . . a coral fish. . .sitting on the moon watching the Earth
7 .Why is the climate changing?
8. Greenhouse effect
9. Greenhouse Gases – What is good? What is the problem?
10. A little extra warming
11. It matters what we do. Work with nature!
12. My action plan
13. Spread the message about climate change
14. Visions of the future. A bright and sunny vision! A little darker vision!
15. Reflection on the learning
16. Question cards - How can I help?
Posters Robots - Biomimicry for Young Children
Posters that can be used to support children's observations when exploring Biomimicry and Robots with Young Children.
You can put posters up in your home or the classroom and let your child/students add their own observations. You can also add the observations to an imagination task and tell or write a story about what it feels like to have a robot jumping into your bathtub. . .
Posters Robots - Biomimicry for Young Children
Poster that can be used to support children's observations when exploring Biomimicry and Robots with Young Children.
You can put posters up in your home or the classroom and let your child/students add their own observations. You can also add the observations to an imagination task and tell or write a story about what it feels like to have a robot jumping into your bathtub. . .
Winter Creative Writing Activities
Winter Creative Writing Activities. A package filled with winter magic.
There are a color and a black and white version of each page.
The following writing activities are included:
Plan you story
Question for your story
Creative Snow word exercises
Special snow words
Random word inspiration using snowflake dices
8 pages with writing prompts
4 pages with ”How to”
2 pages with Interview questions
Winter Mystery
Snow wishes – taking other people's and animal’s perspectives
I Love snowflakes
Snowflake Fairy Poem
Extra pages with dices and snowflakes
STEM - Biomimicry for Young Children - Mammals' Feet and Legs
Montessori inspired booklet using mammal's feet and legs as inspiration for new ideas. There are cards with photos of different types of mammal's feet that can be used to study feet such as swimming feet, running legs, and hopping legs feet.
Lessons about biomimicry require a brave approach to teaching since there is a move away from an approach where teachers are asking questions and looking for quick answers. Instead young learners are given an opportunity to shape and explore their own ideas. Biomimicry and bioinspiration are constantly evolving and new ideas are explored to solve problems and designing innovations.
1. Introduction to biomimicry
2. Mammal observations
3. Acrostic poem
4. What if I could run like a cheetah?
5. Invent something inspired by cheetah's legs
6. Cats' claws challenge
7.Talking sloths
8. Design a playground with a monkey bar inspired by sloths.
9. Extra thumb
10. Story writing - Eat really fast
11. Invent a digging robot
12. Armadillo inspired handbag, food package . . .
13. Jerboa inspired toy or hopping robot
14. What if you could jump around in the dark without bumping into things?
15. What if I was a platypus?
16. Platypus shape poem
17. Platypus comic strip
18. Random pictures platypus design challenge
19. Random biomimicry game
20. Cards with differ types of mammals' feet and legs.
21. How to use biomimicry in the classroom
22. Links and book tips
Math Centers Activity Counting Numbers 0-20 - Australian Theme
This activity is a fun way to help students continue to strengthen their number skills to 20. The students are also encouraged to use little animal tokens to make up their own number problems. This approach deepens the understanding of numbers and it is also fun!
Included in this pack:
Cards and worksheets. Australian animals.
Colour as well as black and white cards.
Be a Pumpkin Detective Math
Be inspired by Pumpkins!
This booklet contains a range of worksheets, some that require basic number skills, while others are a bit more complex.
Fun activities where the children are asked to make up their own math problems. Children often enjoy creating their own problems. This approach requires a deeper reflection upon numbers and basic arithmetic operations as compared to only providing an answer.
Pumpkin inspired multiplication and division cards. Students can make their own problems.
1. Make a tally - How many seeds are in a pumpkin?
2. Add and give away pumpkins
3. Building block
4. Make up your own problems
5. Multiplication and division cards.
Color and black and white versions.
Creative Thinking - Random Alien Inspiration 2
Have some fun while you give the creative muscles some workout!
In this booklet, the term alien word is used to introduce the idea with random input. The “alien” words are not entirely “random” but selected to make it a bit easier for a child to extract words to help them get new ideas. Nevertheless, this task requires some creative thinking.
There is a myth that ideas just “come to a person”. Of course, sometimes ideas just come easy but sometimes it is important to step out of the box and look at a problem from a new perspective. One technique that can be used it to use random input to help a child generate new ideas.
In this booklet, children roll a dice to select a "random word" and they also look for ways to improve upon the original idea. Positive and negative aspects with the ide are explored.
Pig Addition - Add ten
Learning to add ten is a vital math skill.
This resources will help your children not only to add 10 to numbers between 1-9 but also learn to to quickly add 10 together. Building blocks of various shapes and sizes are used to show that you get the number ten by adding for example 6+4.
There are pages where the children can draw their own pigs and create their own maths problems.
The pages are color as well as black-and-white so the children can color-in the building blocks themselves.
STEAM Biomimicry for Young Children - Spooky Spiders
Be inspired by Halloween!
Invent a toy inspired by jumping spiders.
Enter the fascinating world of spooky spiders. Use the observations to design toys and solve problems.
Lessons about biomimicry require a brave approach to teaching since there is a move away from an approach where teachers are asking questions and looking for quick answers. Instead young learners are given an opportunity to shape and explore their own ideas. Biomimicry and bioinspiration are constantly evolving and new ideas are explored to solve problems and designing innovations.
1. Why Teach Biomimicry
2. Getting Started Guide
3. Spider are spooky because
4. What if I was a spider? Jumping spider
5. Jumping spider dance
6. Spooky spider-web furniture
7. Walking on water - Diving bell spiders
8. How to use biomimicry in the classroom - inspiration and ideas
9. Links and information
STEM Biomimicry for Young Children - Bears
Bears are extraordinary animals. Some bears climb trees others make a wide range of interesting noises.
Biomimicry is an exciting way to inspire young children to be creative, curious and to observe the world. The projects are intended to inspire a playful and creative approach towards problem-solving.
Children come to understand how animals and plants can be used as a platform upon which ideas and inventions can be developed. Biomimicry bridges the boundaries traditionally found in education and provides young children with an opportunity to mix art, literature and science with an innovative approach.
This topic also provides an opportunity to bring the learning outdoors – observing, listening and smelling are vital factors to build a foundation upon which ideas inspired by nature can be explored.
1. Why Teach Biomimicry
2. Getting Started Guide
3. How to Observe and Collect Information about bears
4. Bears Are Can Have
5. Polar bears are fascinating because. . .
6. What if I was a polar bear? Invent something fluffy and warm inspired by the fur.
7. Feet like a polar bear. Use pictures as inspiration to invent something.
8. Invent a robo using polar bear as our inspiration.
9. What do grizzly bears eat?
10. Make a menu inspired by grizzly bears. Invent a glow that selects food. . .
11. Great at digging - design a gardening/farming tool or machine inspired by grizzly bears.
12. Sleeping grizzly bears. Invent a sleeping bag.
13. Giant Pandas are great because. . .
14. Glove or toy inspired by giant pandas.
15. Long Tongue - Sun Bears
16. Spectacled bear - Log peeling robo, Cool sunglasses
17.Sloth bear - Singing pavement
18. How to use biomimicry in the classroom - inspiration and ideas
19. Links to videos and information
20. Poster
STEM - Biomimicry for Young Children - Spring Flowers
Be inspired by the unpredictable Spring weather and the beautiful Spring flower. This packages uses questions about the weather to encourage children to observe flowers.
1. Why Teach Biomimicry
2. Getting Started Guide
3. Acrostic Poem
4. Things I Love about Daffodils
5. How does the daffodil survive the gusty winds?
6. Invent something inspired by daffodils
7. Why do tulips close the flowers when it is raining?
8. Make an advertisement for Spring Hats. Invent something inspired by tulips.
9. Primula - special rain protection pollen
10. Imagination Challenge – Special rain protect
11. Why do cherry blossoms fall to the ground? Invent a beautiful recycling machine
12. Design a cherry blossom dress, skirt or t-shirt.
13. Spring-y sunshine - arctic poppy - flowers that follow the sun
14. How to use biomimicry in the classroom - inspiration and ideas
15. Links and information