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Where Did the Sugar Go?

Examining How Sugar Moves Through the Body

The team investigates the sugar cubes
triangles

This activity focuses on how sugar moves throughout the body and the effect diabetes can have on these processes.

This activity includes 3 student stations:

  1. Meal prepping
  2. Monitoring
  3. Motion.

At the meal prepping station, students are challenged to plan a meal that fits the carbohydrate constraints of a diabetic patient.

At the monitoring station, students use a glucometer to test simulated patient blood samples taken before and after eating a meal.

At the motion station, students use glucose test strips to test simulated patient plasma samples taken before and after exercising.

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