Sutton Trust Summer School
On July 4th, 2023, Svitlana Braichenko, Carolin Kosiol, Shangzhe Zhang joined the Sutton Trust Summer School to teach about evolution! They took S5 students on a journey through natural selection, genetic drift, mutations, DNA, and phylogeny.
We proposed computer simulations and interactive games to make learning about evolution fun. One game involved chocolate beans with different “traits”, showing how certain selected traits can be passed on and while other traits turn out be too tasty to survive in high numbers! The students also got to build phylogenetic trees using dice-generated mutations.
A huge thanks to Dave Hughes and Chris Simmons-Riach for getting us involved, organising and supporting the summer school.