I walked in 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 on to 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. Then I gave them some clues and we were off to look for reasons and explanations as to how this can happen. 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

What I was doing here was trying to bring their theoretical information into an everyday