The Center for Learning with Nature was asked to design Nature-inspired STEM activities for the Changemaker Camp at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. CLN Director Sam Stier developed several activities, including making and testing humpback whale-inspired wind turbines, making rainbow-casting iridescent chocolate using bioinspired color, using time trials to…
The Center for Learning With Nature’s Director Sam Stier’s book, Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature-Inspired Approach, has now been translated into Korean, and is carried by the Korean publisher, Open Books.
The Center for Learning With Nature hosted 70 K-12 teachers from 25 different schools across the island of Guam for the 3rd annual workshop on integrating the natural world into teaching standard school subjects (Nature-Enriched School Teaching). The first day of the workshop was held at the University of…
Wild Ideas: A Biomimicry of Saguaro National Park April 6-10, 2025 | Tucson, AZ Redemptorist Renewal Center/Saguaro National Park Join us next spring in Saguaro National Park for another biomimicry professional development and nature exploration experience. From Hollywood westerns and tourist postcards, the Sonoran Desert is often depicted as a…
As The Center for Learning With Nature wraps up the second of two 3-year projects training professional development providers in the European Union, it’s worthwhile taking a moment to reflect on how the practice of education can evolve. Six years ago, after seeing the curricula on the LWN website, an…
Wild Ideas: An Introduction to Biomimicry in Acadia National Park July 31 – Aug. 3, 2024 Schoodic Institute | Winter Harbor, Maine Master the fundamentals of biomimicry as you explore the forests, wetlands and rocky headlands of Acadia National Park during the peak of a beautiful northern summer. Learn how the…
Texas high schoolers made the raw material for cement and concrete aggregate out of carbon dioxide…
The Center for Learning with Nature (LWN) is partnering with the Glacier Institute to offer a biomimicry workshop this summer, led by LWN’s senior educator, Megan Schuknecht, along with Adelheid Fischer. The Wild Ideas workshop is a 4-day introduction to the basics of looking to nature for design inspiration. In this…
Director Sam Stier was invited by the Guam Department of Education to deliver the keynote address to a teacher conference in Guam on using bioinspiration with place-based education. Sixty teachers from across the island and the island of Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia) attended the January conference. As part of…
The Center for Learning with Nature has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore ways of integrating bioinspired innovation into undergraduate biology education. Despite being based on the living world, bioinspired innovation is not typically covered in undergraduate biology. This project will focus especially on integrating…
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