Keep them curious!

I walked into my class with a question. Here's all I said

"White mum, black dad - the baby is born brown - kind of like an 'in-between' color, how does this happen?

Within seconds all eyes were glued onto my diagrams on the board. They were anxious to find out what happens. As I always love the suspense, I let them ponder for a few minutes as they shuffled through their minds and books to come up with an explanation. I took a few answers from the classes but none were close enough or correct. The anxiety was building up and the curiosity was rising. Now they really HAD to know.

I gave them some clues and we were off to look for reasons and explanations as to how this can happen. What could possibly be going on in our DNA that made this a possibility?
Within a few minutes, the students were able to completely understand on their own, how these traits are passed on. They were able to have the satisfying feeling of figuring out how something worked and applied to the real world. I was just a facilitator and a guide. I did not provide information rather I let them bank on themselves by providing a few leading questions.

What I was doing here, was simply trying to bring their attention to theoretical information through an everyday situation and all I did was start with a question instead of an explanation.

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Start your day with a question that makes them think... soon you will find that they ask the most fascinating questions and come up with the most mind boggling answers that move the world! In the process, you are slowly creating an analytical and inquiring mind!