Lesson Plans

Temporary Sanctuary
Lesson Overview: Lesson focuses on students learning about how sustainability, biomimicry, and architecture can work together to create innovative and ...

Animal Architects
Lesson Overview This unit takes biological phenomena such as transpiration of plants, laws of thermodynamics, animal behavior and regulation of ...

The Charging Sun: Self-Sustaining Portable Charger
In this lesson students will learn about how photosynthesis and photovoltaic cells work. Looking specifically at light reaction and solar ...

Flight of the Bumblebee
Lesson Overview: This is an integrated lesson to be used in Physical Science and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Class. The focus ...

Animal Armor
Lesson Overview: Students study different types of arthropods and design 3D printed body armor for stuffed animals based on exoskeletons. ...

Build a bug: Designing a Predator Insect
Lesson Overview: The students will research what makes a good predator to design and 3D print a prototype of the ...

Riparian Zone Replacement Design
Lesson Overview: The students will explore the causes and effects of erosion and how a healthy riparian zone can work ...

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation, award # DRL – 2148781 (Purdue University) / 2148782 (University of Hawaii). Any opinions and findings expressed in this material are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.