Spider necro-bots
Why do spider legs curl up when they die? How we can use this observation to make small, cheap, waste-free robots?
Victorian curriculum links
Science level 5 & 6: Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives (VCSSU073).
Science level 3 & 4: Natural Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others and processed materials have a range of physical properties; these properties can influence their use (VCSSU060)
Science level 7 & 8: Scientific knowledge and understanding of the world changes as new evidence becomes available; science knowledge can develop through collaboration and connecting ideas across the disciplines and practice of science (VCSSU089)