Tag: Engineering

Robot Robot Goose

Thursday, October 24th, 2024


Lesson Overview:  Students design and create a robotic decoy that mimics a light goose’s behavior well enough to encourage a flock of seasoned light geese to land. Lesson Scenario:  Light geese populations have been increasing exponentially on the North American continent since the 1960s.  Larger populations are causing habitat destruction in the Canadian arctic and […]

Raptor Round Up

Thursday, October 24th, 2024


Lesson Overview:  Students develop a gardening hand tool that is inspired by prehistoric or contemporary organism adaptations. Lesson Scenario:  Rusler Implement, a local agricultural equipment company, is looking to expand to agricultural and gardening hand tools. They are looking for concepts and designs to submit to their manufacturing staff.  They want the products to reflect […]

Ticket to Fly

Friday, June 7th, 2019


Students will study the physics behind different types of flight and using biomimicry design a simple flying machine.

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