Learning Academic Vocabulary in Context: Nature Inspired Solutions (HS)
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Make teaching reading comprehension easier this year! This resource contains four informational passages with 56 comprehension questions. It also has 75 vocabulary words. Forty-four are accompanied by definitions, reviews, and quizzes. The remaining 31 words require students to infer meanings usingPrice $16.00Original Price $20.00Save $4.00
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This print-and-go Common Core-aligned informational text contains ten embedded grade-level academic vocabulary words. These are accompanied by definitions, parts of speech, a review, and a quiz. It also contains ten more carefully selected words with a worksheet for inferring their meanings by using context clues. A word origin assignment using Greek and Latin roots completes the vocabulary lessons provided.
Twenty reading comprehension questions allow students to master skills such as central idea, text purpose, author’s point of view, inference, text structure, and text evidence.
Vocabulary in Context Examples: innovative; emulate; enigma
Context Clues Examples: appendage; indispensable; scrutinize
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Student Resources
Vocabulary with Definitions and Parts of Speech
Reading Passage
- Mimicking Nature
- Water: Nature's Driving Force
- The Benguela Current
- The Darkling Beetle
- Find Solutions in Nature
- Emulation: Biomimetics' First Core Element
- Ethos: Biomimetics' Second Core Element
- Reconnection: Biomimetics' Second Core Element
- Biomimetics' Role in Medicine
- Biomimetics' Future
- Harvesting Fog for Human Survival
- For Harvesting's Ancient Roots
Comprehension Questions
Teacher Resources
- Greek and Latin Roots Worksheet
- Using Context Clues to Infer Meaning
- Vocabulary Review
- Vocabulary Quiz
- Answer Keys
- Vocabulary Strategies
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Excerpt I
Biomimetics is the science of creating new ideas, processes, and materials by imitating nature’s most successful designs. This word is derived from the Greek bio, which means life, and mimesis, meaning to mimic. Imitating nature’s innovative problem-solving methods requires engineering, biology, chemistry, and physics. This approach has proven beneficial in robotics, industries, and architecture. However, some of its most significant contributions are in water conservation and medicine.
Excerpt II
To satisfy its thirst, nature has provided this insect with a system for capturing the current’s mist. Each day, when the droplet-filled clouds drift inland, the tiny creature climbs to the top of the highest dune. Then, it tilts its head downward, raises its backside, and quenches its thirst. This posture allows its thick wing structure to point upward, penetrating the dense mist. As the droplets descend, they merge, causing their weight to increase. Gravity pulls them downward, and condensation occurs. After the vapor changes into a liquid, it flows through narrow channels into the beetle’s waiting mouth. Today’s scientists imitate this insect's actions to ensure that citizens worldwide receive fresh water.
Excerpt III
The United Nations predicts that by the year 2050, the planet’s population will reach approximately nine billion. This factor warns that new ideas, processes, and materials are essential. The Da Vinci Index, a tool for tracking the financial impact of this field, agrees. This highly valued index reassures us of biomimetics’ future. Industries that emulate nature’s proven genius will reap untold monetary benefits. By 2028, societies will purchase products that mimic nature for around eighteen billion dollars. The implications for such economic gains inspire researchers to expand their search for new ways to improve human life.
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