Learning Opportunities

PROJECT SLICE: BIOMIMICRY DESIGNS

Presented By

Charity Allen

Series Sessions

Date Time
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:45 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person Medicine Hat - TBD -, Medicine Hat, AB

Learn PBL by doing PBL in this one-day Project Slice - an immersive experience where teachers get to experience high-quality PBL first-hand. Slices start with a provocative entry event on intriguing design challenges and end the day with an exhibition, complete with presentations of learning with educators’ products in-hand. Along the way, participants respond to powerful focusing questions.

 

They experience high-quality, formative assessments with the use of protocols for drafting, critique and revision. They experience non-linear and personalized construction of knowledge first-hand.

 

Biomimicry Designs – For years, humans have been stealing

ideas from plants and animals to create tools, solve problems and enhance their lives. For example, humans used biomimicry with the kangaroo's pouch to inspire the Baby Bjorn - a tool humans use to carry babies.

 

Try your hand at Design Thinking to ideate and conceptualize a solution, inspired by nature, that helps humans with an everyday problem. Solution concepts will be publicly exhibited at the end of the day.

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