RULES

 

Naturalist shows a video "Bionics: how adaptations of animals and plants serve to human" (YouTube window with this video is at the bottom of this page!) and then give players cards with pictures of natural adaptations mixed with cards that have pictures of peoples’ adaptations to the social environment. Then naturalist asks players to try to match these cards and find their pairs of cards.

 

When players will finish that and all pairs will be found, naturalist gives them white cardboard pieces (one to each pair) and ask to write down an explanation of this adaptation of the natural object to the human idea. For example, bats’ possibility to use ultrasound to determine a distance to the nearest obstacle or object lately adapted for creating echo sounder that uses for ships’ and submarines’ navigation. Players write these explanations by markers and relatively large letters, but they must fit their explanations to one page.

 

After this work, players demonstrate their examples for other players. naturalist gives out plastic files. Using this chucks, players put pairs of cards together to form a two-sided page of the future book. Players put pairs of cards in plastic files, so two-sided pages will be ready to fit the book. Then naturalist takes an office folder and forms a book from two-sided pages with pairs of cards and players’ explanations to it.

The result of this matching game will be a colorful book that should be demonstrated to all players.

 

EXAMPLES THAT USED FOR THE GAME

 

1. Bat's possibility to use ultrasound for navigation – echo sounder for ships, submarines, and mobile echo sounder for fishing

2. Animals’ fur – using warm isolating materials, natural and synthetic, for winter coats

3. Turtle’s shell – knight’s armor

4. Hawk’s claws – robot’s hand

5. Birds’ tail – airplane’s tale

6. Webbed feet of a duck – flippers

7. Membranes of flying squirrel – wingsuit   

8. Stork’s flight style – glider

9. Birds’ hollow bones – hollow structures of airplane wings, bridges, and ships

10. Streamline shapes of fish and sea mammals’ bodies – streamline shapes of sports cars and aircrafts

11. Skeleton in animals’ bodies – reinforced concrete

12. Eye’s lens – lens of cameras and different other optical equipment

13. Spider net – fishing net

14. Dark lichens (heat absorption and warming up) – wearing cloth of dark colors in cold climate and cloth of light colors in hot climate

15. Tumbleweed (desert plant) – wheel

16. Cat’s eye – night vision equipment