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:
Meal prepping
Monitoring
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.
Standards Alignment + Connections
MS-LS1-3: Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as matter moves through an organism.
Grade 7 TEKS: 7.12B
3.1.6-8.C: Use arguments supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells
3.1.6-8.G – Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism
In this design challenge, students will work together to design a tool or process that successfully removes an invasive species from an ecosystem while minimizing harm to the native species and environment.
In this challenge, students will practice problem-solving and collaboration skills as they design, build, and test their wind turbine
prototypes. Students will explore the role of renewable energy in powering communities, learn about energy transfer and mechanical systems, and gain insight into the importance of sustainable energy solutions.
In this activity, students will read the story "In a Garden" by Tim McCanna. They will learn about the life cycle of a plant, what seeds need to grow, and what keeps seeds from growing. They will then create their own seed house and watch their seeds sprout!