Bats | Science Halloween Nature Inspired Medical Applications Biomimicry

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Halloween is an exciting time – make sure that your students are
learning with this eye-opening resource. This unit celebrates bats as
the remarkable and fascinating mammals that they are by using this
Biomimicry product. Bats are amazing creatures that sometimes have a bad
reputation. Here they provide inspiration for new ideas, focusing on
medical applications. 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 bats and use creative thinking to explore
ideas.

These activities are fun and captivating.

Feel inspired, Be Creative and Make Change.

Some
bats species have healing skins which is a very useful inspiration for
medical applications such as skin healing plasters. There are bats that
scientists are studying to gain insight into the macular disease. Join
thousands of teachers who have discovered the benefits of studying
nature in the classroom.

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

This awesome Bat package contains:

1. Short introduction to biomimicry

2. Ways to find out about bats

3. Interesting things about bats

4. Echolocation in caves

5. Bat anatomy

6. Flexible wings

7. Ideas for healing skin

8. Honduran white bats

9. Tent-making bats

10. Yellow ears, face, nose, legs, and wings – macular disease

11. Explore how studying bats can help humans

12. Fruit bats

13. Nocturnal nuisances or fascinating friends?

14. Bumblebee bats

15. Hanging upside down

16. Questions for a vampire bat

17. Myths and vampire bats

18. Are bats a nuisance?

19. Feel inspired, Be Creative, Make a Change – Use random inspiration to invent something inspired by bats.

Reviews of Sparking Children’s Thinkibility products:

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!”

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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