http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/index.html

Biomimicry is the science and art of using Nature's best biological ideas to solve human problems - looking to Nature for design ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXYMBWjIks

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=biomimicry&submit=Submit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFOmPQWw4Io

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCJJ0tnx3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWH624jPW0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5lMJtQOKSY

Many different products have already been created based on plant and animal traits. For example:

In 1948, a Swiss chemist studied cockleburs that stuck to his dog's coat. He copied them and developed self-hooking straps, commonly known as Velcro.

Cockleburs have sticky hooks

These shoes have sticky hooks like cockleburs. The straps stick together.

An inventor saw cockleburs stick to an animal.

The inventor

had an idea to make

sticky hooks.

People get ideas for inventions from the world around them. They use those ideas to make things.

Many good ideas come from observing plants and animals. People copy the shape or function of plant and animal parts to make products we can use.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/oceans-narrated-by-sylvia-earle/oceans-barrier-reef?source=relatedvideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zpiEY77Ujk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmhdybydSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZg2jXJwJk

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/00/earthpulse/reef/reef1_flash-feature.html

Coral polyps are tiny animals that live in shallow ocean waters. Some kinds of coral polyps build coral reefs.

Coral reefs change the ocean environment. They provide homes, food, and safety for many different ocean animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXR2RY5k1c

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/siberian-tiger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rdz67apko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21mXiq6D6g

Many animals have feet. However, not all animal feet are the same. Animal feet are built in many different ways.

How an animal's feet are built determines what the animal can do. An animal's feet are built in a way that helps the animal survive.