Students explore nature-inspired design, cooperation and rivalry, human impacts, and nature's relationship with well-being. They explain connections, evaluate ideas, and propose solutions through reading and discussion.
Practice: Vocabulary in context, idioms, reading comprehension, role-play, and reasoned discussion.
Vocabulary: mimic, sonic, repel, sustainable, microscopic, maintenance; biomimicry.
Language practice: Describe mechanisms, explain how a design solves a problem, and propose an invention inspired by nature.
Idioms & expressions: break the mold, nail it, by the book, a game changer, ahead of the curve, start from scratch.
Reading & speaking: Read about nature-inspired fasteners, trains, and self-cleaning surfaces; interpret figurative expressions, discuss everyday design problems, and evaluate biomimicry examples.