Science (core elements and competence targets after 10th grade):

• Document, interpret and present results from own investigations and discuss sources of error and uncertainty. 
• Describe reproduction in plants and animals, including the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction, and explain how these processes contribute to genetic variation.
• Explain hereditary characteristics in humans using terms such as genotype and phenotype, and use simple crossover tables to understand the inheritance of dominant and recessive traits.
• Explain how chromosomes and genes determine hereditary characteristics and use crossover tables to show inheritance patterns. 
• Discuss how genetic variation occurs, and what this means for evolution and adaptation in living organisms.

Introduction (approx. 10 min)

• The students are collected from reception and we go together to the teaching room.

Activity (approx. 70 min)

• Introduction to a number of subject terms and simple cross-checking schemes.
• Simulation of gamete division and fertilization.
• Decode genotypes into specific traits.
• Building and breeding offspring based on the decoding.
• Discussion of different inheritance patterns, partner search and forms of reproduction in different organisms.

Closing (approx. 10 min)

• We round off with questions and clean up.

The teacher's role

We want you as an adult to be active, participating and curious. Teachers are responsible for the group throughout the visit and may be asked to help along the way. Explainer is responsible for implementing the program. 

Before the visit

Our teaching plans do not require preparatory work, but it is always useful to prepare students for a museum visit. Feel free to show pictures or video from the museum, tell us about what will happen, and see our digital resources that can be used for pre- and post-work.

After the visit

Reflect and discuss with the students after the lesson, preferably in groups.