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Nature is more than the sum of its parts. Explore the connections between individual biological strategies, innovations, or educational resources as leading thinkers, scientists, artists, and others reflect on unifying themes in biomimicry.
How One Fruit Finds Adaptability and Resilience
Through a close look at the feijoa’s ecological relationships to pollinators and to humans, this plant can inspire a wealth of innovative potential in agriculture, design, medicine, and also in our relationships.
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How Does Nature
Break Down the Old to Create the New?
When we understand how nature breaks down complex structures to supply materials for new growth, we learn to see waste as a vital nutrient. This wisdom can turn fashion’s waste problem into a new path forward.
For Educators
The world of the future will be designed by the students of today. AskNature has tools to help educators bring biomimicry into the classroom for a single day or for a whole school year.
Introducing Biomimicry in Spanish
Explore 40 bilingual biological strategies and various teaching guides and activities designed to support Spanish-speaking and bilingual learners.
Introducing Biomimicry in High School
Biomimicry Institute
This collection of activities provides a high school level introduction to the concept of biomimicry, along with instruction to support student use of the resources on the AskNature website to apply biomimicry to any design challenge.
Introducing Biomimicry in Middle School
Biomimicry Institute
This collection of activities will help you begin to incorporate biomimicry through engineering design challenges in your middle school classroom.
Introducing Biomimicry in Grades 3-5
Biomimicry Institute
This collection of activities for grades 3-5 provides ideas and strategies for tying biomimicry into science and engineering design standards.
Biological Strategies
We've curated more than 1800 strategies of living beings that can serve as inspiration for human innovation. Whatever challenge you're looking to address, nature can serve as your model, measure, and mentor.
Innovations
AskNature’s innovation database makes it easy to explore hundreds of products and design solutions inspired by nature's genius and the workings of living organisms.
