Engineering and Nature

by: Page Keeley, Cary Sneider, and Mihir Ravel

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use designs from nature. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that designs from nature provide creative ideas for solving problems.

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