Engaging the Student (Entry Task) 

Checking for Understanding (exit ticket)

1 class period 

Ask students:

“Why do some people get diabetes and others do not?”

• Write students’ responses on the board or chart paper.
•  Accept all reasonable answers. This will enable you to assess students’ prior knowledge.

For each student:

• Carla’s Story

For each team of 3–4 students:

• Graphs for Analyzing the Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

View the full lesson plan here:

• Lesson 3-2: Analyzing the Risk Factors of Type 2 Diabetes

Overview

In this lesson, students analyze graphs to determine how certain factors affect a person’s chance (or risk) of developing Type 2 diabetes. They then read a story to see how risk factors affect a real person’s life.

Enduring Understandings

• Individuals have risk factors that influence their chance (risk) of developing Type 2 diabetes.
•  Some risk factors are beyond an individual’s control and cannot be changed.
•  Individuals can make changes to their life to reduce their risk from other risk factors.

Outcomes and Indicators of Success

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to

1. Define the terms “risk” and “risk factor.” They will demonstrate their ability by learning definitions for each term, analyzing and interpreting data for a variety of factors, and applying their knowledge to a real-life case.
2.  Identify and explain why certain conditions are risk factors for type 2 diabetes. They will demonstrate their understanding by analyzing and interpreting data for five different factors and identifying risk factors from a real-life case.
3.  Explain that people can control or change some of their risk factors and thereby influence the chance that they will get Type 2 diabetes. They will demonstrate their ability to explain by analyzing data for five different risk factors, answering questions about risk factors and a person’s chance of getting Type 2 diabetes, and recognizing how an individual has made changes to her life to reduce her risk for Type 2 diabetes.

This Lesson in part has been provided by the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS)Curriculum, collaboratively developed by: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU), and the Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee. 

• Document camera
• Transparency pens or markers
• Chart paper (optional) 
• Copy of "Graphs for Analyzing the Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes" (see student handouts)

Point out to students that Carla's is only one person’s story and you don’t know whether the changes that Carla made in her life really changed her risk.

Ask students:

• Do you think Carla could have developed Type 2 diabetes even if she hadn’t changed her lifestyle? Why or why not?
• If someone may get diabetes regardless of whether or not they make positive lifestyle choices, why should they make those positive changes?