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Big Idea & Essential Questions |
Lesson Overview | Eliciting and Engaging the Student | Developing the Ideas | Checking for Understanding |
~3-4 class periods |
Big Idea 1: Diabetes and the Community
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In these lessons, students write their own definition and thoughts about Type 2 diabetes and consider why it may be important to study diabetes. They then interview community members to learn more about what others know or think about Type 2 diabetes. Students compare the community members' responses with each other and with their own responses. Through this activity, students see that different individuals have different information and thoughts about Type 2 diabetes. |
Lesson 1-1 A: What do I know about Diabetes?
Lesson 1-1 B: Why Study Type 2 Diabetes?
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~3-4 class periods |
Big Idea 2: The Facts and Science of Diabetes and Glucose
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In these lessons, students begin to learn about Type 2 diabetes by playing the role of health professionals. Students then compare the information they learned through the role play with their previous knowledge of diabetes.
To deepen their scientific understanding of Type 2 diabetes, students will perform an experiment with two digestive enzymes to determine whether glucose is present in three types of milk. In Lesson 2-3, students examine food labels, calculate the percentage of calories from macro-molecules (protein, fat, and carbs), and determine the duration of physical activity required for balancing calories consumed and calories burned. |
Lesson 2-1: Health Professional Role-Play |
Lesson 2-2: Where is Glucose in Food?
Lesson 2-3: Where Do Calories Come From In Your Diet?
Lesson 2-4: Glucose in balance
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~4 class periods |
Big Idea 3: Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Diabetes
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In these lesson, students will 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 affects a real person's life. Students will also examine traits that are determined by genes, the environment, or a combination of both, and interpret genetic information associated with an increased risk for Type 2 diabetes. | Lesson 3-1: Risk Factors & Diabetes |
Lesson 3-2: Analyzing the Risk Factors of Type 2 Diabetes
Lesson 3-3: Introduction to Multifactorial Traits
Lesson 3-4: Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors
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~4-5 class periods |
Big Idea 4: Treating Diabetes
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In the first two lessons, students will learn about which body parts can be compromised in a person with diabetes and what happens to those body parts. They will then develop a detailed human body poster that shows the many organs and body systems impacted by type 2 diabetes and learn about the damage done to each of those organs and treatments for type 2 diabetes and their physiological targets.
The remaining 3 lessons focus specifically on the story of insulin and how advances in DNA technology have revolutionized the mass production of insulin. Students will be able to conduct a bacterial transformation themselves (in either a virtual or wet lab setting… or both), make predictions and analyze the results and outcomes of their investigations. |
Lesson 4-1: Effects of Diabetes_ Body Part Match-Up Activity
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Lesson 4-2: Anatomy and Physiology of Type 2 Diabetes
Lesson 4-4: Making Insulin: Virtual Lab
Lesson 4-5: Transformation Wet Lab (optional) |
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~1-2 class periods |
Big Idea 5: Preventing Diabetes
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In these lessons, students are introduced to a series of quotes from individuals who hold a variety of views concerning the rising rates of Type 2 diabetes and obesity in the United States. Students are introduced to the ethical principles Respect for Persons, Justice, and
Maximizing Benefits/Minimizing Harms in order to better understand the wide range of views on this subject. Students will also analyze the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to become aware of ways that people can either reduce their chances or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes. |
Lesson 5-1: Who decides? |
Lesson 5-2: Overview of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
Lesson 5-3 (optional homework lesson): Should Parents of Morbidly Obese Kids Lose Custody? |
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TBD by instructor |
Big Idea 6: Action Project: Informing Others about Diabetes
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In this final action project, students will recall and us what they've learned previously about Type 2 diabetes. Students choose a medium of their choice (e.g. newsletter, PSA, poster, presentation, etc..) to educate their teachers and peers about Type 2 diabetes. The presentation forum is to TBD by instructor. | Lesson 6-1: Learning Review |
Lesson 6-3: Peer Project Evaluation
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