Where Did the Sugar Go?

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

Next Generation Science Standards 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.

Related Science TEKS

Grade 7 TEKS: 7.12B

STEELS Standards ( Pennsylvannia)

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

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