Central Idea: Sustainable designs that exist in nature can be used to solve human problems.
Once students had learned the problem solving strategy, they began looking to nature for design inspirations.
What designs already exist in nature that we could use?
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn. Janine Benyus
Many students looked to nature for inspiration and adapted appropriate, sustainable designs.