What can plants and animals teach us about how to make our lives better? For years, people have looked at nature to come up with new products. Learn about some ideas that have improved travel, medicine, and building. The natural world has shown us the way to many useful inventions!

Nature-Based Tech is part of the Super Science Facts series that engages readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colorful images on every page to support comprehension. The series covers Physical Science, Life Science and Social Sciences in individual sets. The minimal-text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.