This document discusses how inventors are inspired by nature to create inventions that help people. It provides examples of inventions inspired by plants and animals, such as dandelion parachutes, burr shoes, lotus umbrella, kingfisher fast trains, sugar glider wing suits, and humpback whale swim fins. The document encourages imagining an animal ability one would like to have and creating a gadget to mimic it, then reflects on what can be learned from animals and plants.

2. Hook
Let’s create a mimic airplane.
Imagine that you are flying
on an airplane. Innovate by
gluing some paper feathers
to the wings of your airplane
so it resembles a bird.

3. Habit of Mind
Creating
Imagining and
Innovating

4. Habit of Mind
Creating means
to make something.
Imagining means
to think amazing things
Innovating means
to make things better.

5. Habit of Mind
Imagine yourself as
a famous toy maker.
What kind of toy
would you like to
create?

6. Essential Question
What is life?

7. How do inventors use
the ideas from nature to
create things that will
help people solve
problem?
Topical
Essential Question

8. Survival
is the act of staying alive or living longer.
Adaptation
is what living things do or have in order to survive.
Reproduction
is the act of creating an offspring.

9. Environment
is the surrounding plants and animals live in.
Predator
is the animal or plant that consumes the prey.
Prey
is the animal or plant that is being
consumed by the predator.
Mimicry
is copying or imitating.

10. Pretest
1. People cannot learn anything from animals.
2. We can copy some animal abilities and skills.
3. The person who invents things are called inventors.
4. Plants cannot talk, but we can learn from them.
5. Humans, animals and plants are equally important.
Instructions: Number your paper from 1-5.
Draw a if you agree with the statement.
Draw a if you do not agree with the statement.

12. This is an airplane.
Airplanes are air vehicles that make
flying possible for humans.
Can an airplane fly without wings? Why
or why not?

13. When humans invented
airplanes, which animal did
they get the inspiration
from?

14. How Do Plants And Animals Stay
Safe?
Some plants and animals have parts
that help them stay safe.

15. Animals solve problems in many different ways
Many animals have parts that scare away other
animals.
A porcupine has sharp
spikes called quills.

16. Some rabbits play dead, sometimes
rabbits also use their speed to run away
from predators.
Animals like this armadillo have protective
armor that helps protect them from the teeth
and claws of predators.
Animals solve problems in many different ways

17. Arctic animals have thick fur to keep
them warm and to hide from
predators
Turtles have flippers to help them
swim.
Animals solve problems in many different ways

18. Some animals use to camouflage with nature to hide them from
predator
Animals solve problems in many different ways

19. Plants protect themselves in many different ways
Some plants have parts that protect them.
A cactus has
spikes. Animals
cannot easily break
it .

20. Rose have
thorns.
Some tree have
sticky fluid called
“latex”.
Plants protect themselves in many different ways

22. What Can Humans
Learn From Plants
And Animals To Stay
Safe?
Engineers may use ideas
from nature to design
products that keep
people safe.

23. Engineering
Engineers design products
to keep people safe.
Sometimes they get ideas
from nature.

24. Three-Step Process Of Invention:
Creating, imagining, and
innovating.
1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)

25. Biomimicry
Biomimicry is when people use ideas from nature
to solve problems.
Plants and animals have different ways to solve
problems that have inspired inventions.

26. Biomimicry In Plants

27. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
Dandelion
Parachute

28. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
Burrs
Shoe

29. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
Lotus Leaves
Umbrella

30. Biomimicry In Animals

31. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
King Fisher
Fast bullet train

32. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
Sugar Glider
Modern wing suit

33. 1. Imagine (new idea)
2. Create
3. Innovate (make it
better)
Humpback Whale
Modern swim fins

34. Let’s Reflect!

35. 1. If you could mimic one animal
characteristic or ability, what
would it be and why?
2. Share your thoughts to your
special group.

36. Let’s Apply!

37. Skill Group 1
1. In column A, draw two animals
that you can remember from
the lesson about biomimicry.
2. In column B, draw the invention
that was inspired from animals
and/or plants.

38. Skill Group 2
1. In column A, draw an animal
that inspires you.
2. In column B, write things that
people can learn from them can
learn from them.

39. Skill Group 3
1. In column A, imagine a special ability of
an animal that you’d like to have. Using
your drawing skills, create a gadget
that you could use to mimic its special
ability.
2. In column B, draw your animal
inspiration.
3. Put your thoughts in writing.

40. Post Test
1. People cannot learn anything from animals.
2. We can copy some animal abilities and skills.
3. The person who invents things are called inventors.
4. Plants cannot talk, but we can learn from them.
5. Humans, animals and plants are equally important.
Instructions: Number your paper from 1-5.
Draw a if you agree with the statement.
Draw a if you do not agree with the statement.

41. The End.