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Flowers
This resource is designed as an introduction to deployable structures using flowers as an example from the natural world. It has activities associated with nets and density and discussion of a link to symmetry and transformations. There are also various practical suggestions (such as making a party blower).
No specialist equipment is required for this activity.
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Flowers (activity sheet) 1.9 MB