Biomimicry: An Alternative Way of STEM Education in Biology
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Biomimicry involves studying to understand the miracle of life in nature that led to the nature imitating in order to create helpful innovations to solve human problems. Examples of advanced innovations in the present from two approaches of natural study are: 1) The biology-to-design approach is a concept that is driven by animals’ problem solving which is imitated to create innovations, and 2) The design-to-biology approach is a concept that is driven by a problem-to-solution approach by animals which is imitated to improve solutions. These are new alternative approaches for science teachers to design biology learning models as a part of STEM education.
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