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Build it Yourself
Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs With 25 Projects
A NSTA *Recommends* Book!
In Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs, young readers explore designs and innovations that come from nature. Leonardo da Vinci studied birds’ wings to draw his design of a man-made flying machine and engineers still look to birds when attempting to make planes more aerodynamic. And a burr on your shirt from walking through a field sticks like Velcro, doesn’t it? The plant and animal world provides engineers and scientists with a host of ideas to apply to the human world to make it a better place to live.
Bioengineering explores different fields, including communication, transportation, and construction, and follows the process of engineering from the raw material of the natural world to the products we use in the human world every day. Activities such as building cantilevers and inventing a new fabric that mimics pinecone behavior require kids to think critically about their own needs and find creative ideas to fulfill those needs using designs from nature. Essential questions and links to digital and primary resources make this book an engaging and illuminating experience.
In Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs, young readers explore designs and innovations that come from nature. Leonardo da Vinci studied birds’ wings to draw his design of a man-made flying machine and engineers still look to birds when attempting to make planes more aerodynamic. And a burr on your shirt from walking through a field sticks like Velcro, doesn’t it? The plant and animal world provides engineers and scientists with a host of ideas to apply to the human world to make it a better place to live.
Bioengineering explores different fields, including communication, transportation, and construction, and follows the process of engineering from the raw material of the natural world to the products we use in the human world every day. Activities such as building cantilevers and inventing a new fabric that mimics pinecone behavior require kids to think critically about their own needs and find creative ideas to fulfill those needs using designs from nature. Essential questions and links to digital and primary resources make this book an engaging and illuminating experience.
128 pages, Hardcover
Published August 9, 2016
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May 17, 2018
I didn't realize the target audience for this was 7- to 8-year-olds. Still an excellent book.
September 19, 2016
BIOENGINEERING: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs by Christine Burilla-Kirch, PhD is an invitation for young readers to explore the ways in which nature has inspired human innovation. Bioengineering is introduced with a timeline and a brief history of the subject.
The variety of fields presented includes communication, energy, transportation, construction, and farming. The chapter Communication and Sound Waves provides a discussion of related topics such as echolocation in bats and its eventual application in ultrasound imaging. The comprehensive text is accessible and interspersed with charts, graphs, sidebars to introduce and explain important terms, and 25 projects for hands-on exploration. A resources section provides opportunities for additional exploration. The book also includes a glossary and index.
You'll want to add this to your STEM library for children 7-10.
The variety of fields presented includes communication, energy, transportation, construction, and farming. The chapter Communication and Sound Waves provides a discussion of related topics such as echolocation in bats and its eventual application in ultrasound imaging. The comprehensive text is accessible and interspersed with charts, graphs, sidebars to introduce and explain important terms, and 25 projects for hands-on exploration. A resources section provides opportunities for additional exploration. The book also includes a glossary and index.
You'll want to add this to your STEM library for children 7-10.
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