Festive Reindeer Challenge | PBL Resource Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature

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Your students will love using reindeer as inspiration to help Santa.
This resource focuses on the study of reindeer and is packed full of
activities to use in your class during the Festive Season or your
“Reindeer/caribou Week”. This is a lesson plan that will guide you
through the process of using biomimicry and steam activities to inspire
students to ask questions, study reindeer and use creative thinking to
explore ideas. Biomimicry is based on the idea that students can take
inspiration from nature when solving problems. Your students will enjoy
this educational as well as engaging and fun approach to
problem-solving.

Contact me at maliasa@live.com if you have any questions, thanks.

This inspiring Reindeer package contains:

Introduction – Biomimicry

What we know and what we want to know

1. I love reindeer because. . .

2. Facts about the Reindeer.

3. Ask the snow hare questions about the Reindeer.

4. Ask the Reindeer questions

5. Festive Challenge Mind Map

6. Mind maps

7. Festive Challenge Help Santa

8. Best Reindeer Forward

9. Reindeer Challenge

10. Some interesting things that I have learned

11. Mind Mapping Ideas

12. Biomimicry Ideas

Project based learning: Bats, STEAM, Biomimicry

“This
product is absolutely the favorite one I have purchased all fall! I
love the information that is provided about bats – just enough to
intrigue and encourage higher level thinking. There are graphic
organizers, worksheets, and subtle suggestions to help young learners
perform at their best! And best of all, it stretches their creativity!
Thanks for such an amazing resource!”

Project based learning: Mammals, Reptiles & Amphibians – STEAM, Biomimicry, NGSS

“Used this for a Kindergarten STEAM club unit and it was a hit!”

12 Days of Christmas, Project Based Learning: Endangered Animals Challenge, NGSS

“The
depth and breadth of this resource blows me away. The students are
going to absolutely love researching, investigating and creating.”

Why am I qualified to write these biomimicry resources? I
was a member of BEN – Biomimicry Education Network – and a curator
of educational resources at BEN. I am the author of the book
Biomimicry with Theo & Tuva: Nature spotting inspires wild
ideas. In 2015, I completed a course in Biomimicry: A Sustainable
Design Methodology at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I
took part in the Biomimicry Design Challenge in 2021.

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