Advanced Math and Science Content for Teachers of Advanced Learners SCIENCE SESSION #2 Topic: - Biomimicry, Grades 6-12 Date: November 13 th , 2012 Developed in partnership with DPI~AIG and NC School of Science and Mathematics Advanced Learners and the new NC SCOS
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Advanced Math and Science Content
for Teachers of Advanced Learners
SCIENCE SESSION #2
Topic: - Biomimicry, Grades 6-12
Date: November 13th, 2012
Developed in partnership with DPI~AIG and
NC School of Science and Mathematics
Advanced Learners and
the new NC SCOS
Advanced Content for Teachers of
Advanced Learners
• Why? – To ensure the growth of advanced learners
– To develop teachers’ understanding of
advanced math/science content and
instructional practices
• What? – 14 Content-based PD sessions, webinar and
archived; 7 mathematics, 7 science
Myra Halpin
Ph.D. from NC State University
in Science Education –
undergraduate majors in
Chemistry and Biology
43 years teaching
experience
• 7 years in middle school
• 2 years k-5
• 4 years college
• 30 at the high school level
Why Biomimicry for my class?
Goals for teaching?
- Teach concepts in context
- Stimulate thinking
- Get students attention with interesting
information
Essential Standards – some are listed at end
but I am confident that you will think of
additional ties that I haven’t thought of for
your grade level.
Biomimicry – Bionic – Biomimetics
Humans have been learning from nature
For a long time.
Biomimetics – Otto Schmitt coined the term
in writing about his efforts to design a
trigger based on the nerve cell of a squid in
the 50’s.
Bionics – 1958 – goal to understand
nature’s principles and use them as stimuli
for innovation (then came the Bionic Man
‘74)
Biomimcry
-defined as a focus on how organisms in
nature have solved a problem that we are
trying to solve and then mimicking or learning
from that process.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine Benyus defines biomimicry as a “new
science that studies nature's models and then
imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and