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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
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