TEACHER ENRICHMENT INITIATIVES

Curriculum

Bittersweet: Diabetes
Topic: Diabetes
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Overview:

Students will recognize that diabetes is a disease that can affect the elderly. Students will learn about the symptoms, signs, and complications of diabetes. Importantly, students will understand that diabetes is used as a model to study mechanisms of accelerated aging. 

 
Lesson 1: Play - Desperately Seeking Insulin
Activity 1A: Desperately Seeking Insulin
Activity 1B: Banting, Best, and All the Rest: The Diabetes Hunters
Activity 1C: The Carding of Diabetes: Ancient Musings
Activity 1D: Elementary School Version - Insulin, Our Hero!
Lesson 2: Compare and Contrast Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Activity 2A: Type 1 and Type 2 Table
Activity 2B: The Clean Up Crew Diabetic Kidney Disease by the Numbers
Activity 2C: An Editor’s Eye and an Empathetic Heart A Diabetes
Lesson 3: Graphing Glucose (Sugar) Tolerance Test Results
Activity 3A: Graphing GTT Results
Lesson 4: Hosting a Socratic Conversation about Diabetes
Activity 4A: Bittersweet: Let’s Talk!
Lesson 5: Diabetic Complications
Activity 5A: Normal and Atherosclerotic Vessels
Activity 5B: Tonic Water Hyper and Hypo
Activity 5C: Sedentary Stan: Vascular Complications of Type 2 Diabetes
Lesson 6: Meal Plan for an Older Person with Diabetes
Pre-Activity 6A: Review Personal Food Plan and Combination Foods
Activity 6A: Meal Plan for the Elderly Diabetic
Lesson 7: Hispanic Americans and Native Americans
Pre-Activity 7A: Diabetes Facts
Activity 7A: Cultural Differences