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Dealing with Diabetes

Participant Names:  Helen Davis, Nancy Elstner, Pam Ross

Focus of Unit: Children with Diabetes in the Classroom             

Rationale:  
Having students in our classes or grade levels with diabetes, we want students in our classrooms to understand the disease, to relate how our lives are affected, and to develop ways in which we can help our classmates with diabetes.

Standards:

Curriculum:

·         Read material across the curriculum by applying appropriate strategies.

·         Use the writing process when creating different forms of written expression.

·         Organize and present information in visual, oral, and/or print form.

·         Identify the components and functions of human body systems.

·         Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.

·         Categorize common diseases into infectious and non-infectious groups.

·         Identify the daily required servings from each of the six groups on the food guide pyramid.

·         Use the six groups on the food guide pyramid to plan a healthful meal.

·         Describe ways technology benefits personal health.

·         Identify activities that encourage healthy behavior.
 

Technology: (Productivity; Communication; Research, Problem-solving & Decision-making Tools)

·         Students will organize and present information in visual, oral, and/or print form.

·         Students use a variety of media and technology resources to create and communicate knowledge products across the curriculum.

·         Identify legal and ethical behaviors when using information and technology.

Learning Activities/Performance Tasks: (Include student preparation and performance)

1.       Large group:  Lead class discussion about diabetes, raising the students’ awareness of empathy toward classmates with the disease.  View power point “Childhood Diabetes.”  Generate questions that will be chosen as the starting off point for group projects.

2.       Large group:  Listen to a child and an adult with the disease discuss how their lives have been affected since the diagnosis. 

3.       Small groups:  Design meals and snacks for a diabetic child for a week.  Perform research to include passive and dynamic resources.  One of the passive resources must be one of the books listed below.  Plan a presentation (poster, PowerPoint presentation, game, or video) to share with the class in two weeks.  Keep a Project Journal to use for group reflection and direction.  The journal must list the sources used including book titles and authors, and websites. Use a minimum of three sources per kind of resource.

4.       Small groups:  Present information in a Kidspiration format.

Rubrics, Assessment & Evaluation:  

            Writing Rubric

            Presentation Rubric

            Group Planning Rubric

            Making A Game Rubric

            Multimedia Project Rubric

Learning Environment: 

            Classroom:
            Whole class:  watch PowerPoint presentation, listen to presenters, and brainstorm
                                 questions
            Cooperative groups: brainstorm, plan, reflect, write in journals

            Media Center:  work in cooperative groups to research and work on individual
                                    computers

Resources:

             Passive Resources: 

            How It Feels To Fight For Your Life by Jill Krementz

            Sarah and Puffle by Linnea Mulder

            Textbooks

            Encyclopedia

            Videos

            Magazines and journals

Dynamic Resoures:

Curriculum Support Software- Kidspiration, PowerPoint, Internet sites,
CD ROMs

Tool Software- Word Processing, Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Video,
Multimedia

Peripherals- Printer, Scanner, Digital camera, Video camera

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