Tiny Engineers, Big Idea: Modeling After Insects
by Jaime Camero
In this lesson, students will learn how insects build sustainable homes and model the insect homes to design a settlement on Mars using the concept of biomimicry. In this lesson, the students will learn math concepts and the engineering design process while designing and modeling in TinkerCAD.
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YStiXo-_0KGr9Lqzf4pBXN4L_nSAIZ7N/edit?u…Subject Area
Science Earth and Space Science Life Science Technology 4. Innovative Designer Engineering S4: Apply Science to Engineering Mathematics Geometry (G)
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