DIABETES COMIC STRIP For your final expedition project you will be creating a comic strip about Type 2 Diabetes

Your Story Line Choose one of the following story lines – How a person can develop Type 2 diabetes – The day and life of a person with Type 2 diabetes – How diabetes affects the body

What you need in your comic! Character(s): Who is in your story? Who are they? Setting: Where is your story taking place? Plot: Your story needs a beginning, middle, and end Conflict: What is the problem in your story? What is the solution? How do your characters get to that solution? Theme: What is the purpose of your story?

The Importance of Drafts Austin, a first grade student at Anser Charter School in Boise, Idaho, drew this series of drafts of a scientific illustration of a Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

Rough Draft #1

Rough Draft # 2

Rough Draft #3

Final Draft

What you need to turn in your final draft. *Turn it in all together – 1 st draft – 2 nd draft – 3 rd draft – Feedback from three other students and a teacher – Research notes – Comic Strip Checklist – FINAL DRAFT

CHECKLIST COPY THE CHECKLIST ACCORDING TO YOUR STORY LINE HOW DOES A PERSON DEVELOPS TYPE 2 DIABETES In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ Diet and exercise ___ Recommended daily sugar intake ___ Description of a person’s symptoms who is developing Type 2 diabetes A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PERSON WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ Diet and exercise ___ Recommended daily sugar intake /measuring sugar levels ___ What medications/treatments needed for Type 2 diabetes HOW DIABETES AFFECTS THE BODY In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ How the pancreas reacts to high concentration of sugar in the blood ___ What happens to the cells when the pancreas stops working. ___ The major health complications that develop from diabetes.

STUDENT REVIEW/RECOMMENDATIONS Directions: Staple the student recommendation table to your first draft.

STUDENT REVIEW/RECOMMENDATIONS Directions: Staple the student recommendation table to your first draft. GALLERY WALK: 1.Leave your comic on the table. 2. When we say switch move to the next table. 3. Review your peers comic. WRITE YOUR NAME on the review sheet. 4. Give positive and honest peer feedback. 5. You will do this for 5-6 people.

PEER RECOMMENDATIONS Review your peer recommendations and start the revision process. YOU MUST KEEP THESE REVISIONS WHEN YOU TURN IN YOUR FINAL WORK.

L.T: I can give and receive feedback about my 1 st draft. Task: Your 1 st draft of your comic is due today! Please take out your 1 st draft along with the checklist. Today you will complete a peer review of each others 1 st draft. Everyone’s draft will have at least 6 student reviews. You will do a gallery walk, moving from table to table. Leave your 1 st draft neatly on your table, with your: 1) checklist, 2) both student review sheets stapled to it. You will spend ____ mins. Reviewing each persons draft. Use the checklist as your guide, say at least one positive thing give suggestions for how to make their comic better.

L.T: I can work on my 2 nd draft for my comic strip. Task: Complete the NYS Science exam review. (8 mins.)

Carbon dioxide CO 2 Oxygen O 2 Energy Cellular Respiration: Using food (sugar) and oxygen from breathing to provide energy C 6 H 12 O O 2  Energy + 6 CO H 2 O Cell C 6 H 12 O 6

Photosynthesis: producers/autotrophs use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to made sugar (food) and oxygen. (6 CO H 2 O + Sunlight  C 6 H 12 O O 2 ) Carbon dioxide CO 2 Oxygen O

Correctly identify each organ system below Digestive system : breaks down food so our cells can use it Respiratory system : Take oxygen into our body and pushes carbon dioxide out Circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrient to our cells

Final Draft What you need to turn in your final draft. *Turn it in all together – 1 st draft (Due Friday May 31 st ) – 2 nd draft (Wednesday June 5 th ) – 3 rd draft (Due Monday June 10 th ) – Feedback from three other students and a teacher – Research notes – Comic Strip Checklist – FINAL DRAFT (Due Friday June 14 th )

Things to focus on for 2 nd draft: 1)You have written the main dialogue with speech bubbles 2)You have made corrections based on your peer and teacher review. 3)Correct spelling and grammar. 4)You included ALL of the content based on your storyline. 5)Each panel has a narrative 6)Have AT LEAST 8 panels

CHECKLIST COPY THE CHECKLIST ACCORDING TO YOUR STORY LINE HOW DOES A PERSON DEVELOPS TYPE 2 DIABETES In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ Diet and exercise ___ Recommended daily sugar intake ___ Description of a person’s symptoms who is developing Type 2 diabetes. (role of insulin) A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PERSON WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ Diet and exercise ___ Recommended daily sugar intake /measuring sugar levels ___ What medications/treatments needed for Type 2 diabetes HOW DIABETES AFFECTS THE BODY In your comic please incorporate the following: Checklist ___ How the pancreas reacts to high concentration of sugar in the blood ___ What happens to the cells when the pancreas stops working. ___ The major health complications that develop from diabetes.

STUDENT REVIEW/RECOMMENDATIONS Directions: Copy the table below. Summarize your story idea to people at your table. Have three of your peers give suggestions/ recommendations and write them in the table below.

WORD BUBBLES People read word bubbles from top to bottom in comics. The top bubble should be the person who is speaking first in the conversation. TYPES OF WORD BUBBLES