Inventions Inspired by Animals Created to be Solutions for Human Problems

Trying to teach inventions inspired by animals? Inspire your first or second grade students to design and create an invention which mimics how animals use their external parts or traits to survive. Biomimicry can solve human's problems. Download this resource and have what you need to teach this concept.

Use the printable book during your science lesson or your reading block. Five animals are shown in the book along with inventions which may have been inspired by their external parts. Inventions mentioned in the book are things in your students' own lives so they will definitely relate to this text.

Two worksheets have students review the animal parts and inventions from the book. Two additional inventions inspired by animal parts provide a short writing task. Wrap up the lesson with discussion of how a kangaroo's pouch inspired an invention too.

Update includes a word search and maze to add some fun to the learning process.

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Lesson Materials Include:

• a book discussing 5 inventions
• 2 worksheets to recall the book information
• a worksheet to recall information and then hypothesize their own reasons how a plant helped inspire an invention
• "Kangaroos have a pouch" inspiration page (2 versions)
• exit ticket
• 3 website links to videos which can be used to introduce the topic and review how nature can inspire invention development
• maze
• word search

Teach nonfiction text features too since the book has

• a table of contents
• a conclusion
• plus students can add labels

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Your students have some knowledge of how nature can be inspiring. They are ready to design an invention. Try this with your class: Solution to a Problem - Inventions

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