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Sustainable Design and Biomimicry in a Desert Ecosystem
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Holmgren, Wendy H. Johnston, Megan Spolarich, Amber |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Students are presented with an engineering challenge: To design a sustainable guest village within the Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Through four lessons and five associated activities, they study ecological relationships with an emphasis on the Sonoran Desert. They come to appreciate the complexity and balance that supports the exchange of energy and matter within food webs. Students are presented with an engineering challenge: To design a sustainable guest village within the Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Through four lessons and five associated activities, they study ecological relationships with an emphasis on the Sonoran Desert. They examine species adaptations. They come to appreciate the complexity and balance that supports the exchange of energy and matter within food webs. Then students apply what they have learned about these natural relationships to the study of biomimicry and sustainable design. They study the flight patterns of birds and relate their functional design to aeronautical engineering. A computer simulation model is also incorporated into this unit and students use this program to examine perturbations within a simple ecosystem. The solution rests within the lessons and applications of this unit. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Vanderbilt University |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Ecology Sustainable Design Desert Ecology Ecosystems Energy Conservation Aeronautical Engineering Biomimicry Legacy Cycle Computer Simulation Model |
| Content Type | Text |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Resource Type | Syllabus |
| Subject | Biology |
