1. Explore

The Explore phase is designed to stimulate students’ curiosity and activate their prior knowledge about matter, scale, and medical technology. At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher introduces the topic by asking a simple but powerful question:

Students are encouraged to reflect on how modern science increasingly works at extremely small scales and how this can influence medicine. To facilitate engagement, the teacher presents a series of images and short animations illustrating nanoscale phenomena and biological structures.

The goal of this phase is not yet to provide formal explanations, but rather to encourage students to observe, question, and hypothesize.