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What is it? Biomimicry

Examples of Biomimicry Boat HullsShaped like Water Striders Boat picture: “University of Iowa Rowing, Back and White highlighted with yellow,” by Jon Fravel. Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Bug picture: Max Westby (flicker) Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Boat picture: “University of Iowa Rowing, Back and White highlighted with yellow,” by Jon Fravel. Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Bug picture: Max Westby (flicker) Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Examples of Biomimicry Synthetic Silk FibersSpiders’ Silk Synthetic Silk Fiber picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, Spider picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Synthetic Silk Fiber picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, Spider picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license,

Examples of Biomimicry Ice AxeWoodpecker Ice Axe picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Woodpecker picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Ice Axe picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Woodpecker picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license,

Examples of Biomimicry VelcroCockleburs Velcro picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, Cockleburs picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, Velcro picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, Cockleburs picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license,

Examples of Biomimicry Bathing Suit MaterialShark Skin Swimmer picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Shark: Albert Kok. licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic licenseCreative Commons3.0 Unported2.5 Generic2.0 Generic1.0 Generic

Examples of Biomimicry AirplaneBird Plane picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Bird picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, Plane picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, Bird picture: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license,

Other Examples? Brainstorm with your group…

Biomimicry: Research Strategies for Reading and Summarizing: 1)Read the title 2)Read the headings 3)Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph 4)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 paragraph 6)Identify: important nouns and verbs in the article 7)Summarize the article 8)Check your summary to make sure you include the main ideas