Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs with 25 Projects (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781619303706)

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.

Author: Christine Burillo-Kirch
ISBN-10: 1619303701
ISBN-13: 9781619303706
Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.80w x 0.30d