[PW] kinesthetic learning experience about diabetes

[Campbell, Barbara A]

Does this look close:
http://www.hallofhealth.org/sepa/lesson_plans/diabetes/5th_Gr_Nutrition_
Lesson_4.pdf 

I contacted one of our staff people over at the Belin Blank Honors
center and she suggested this.  It looks pretty good to me.

Barb

Barb Campbell.
Reference Librarian 
barbara-campbell at uiowa.edu 
 
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Amy Schlumpf Manion
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Subject: [PW] kinesthetic learning experience about diabetes

I come for help once again. Thanks in advance to those who will try to
tackle this one for me. About 10 or 12 years ago I participated in a
workshop on "accelerated learning" through my employer. During the
workshop
the presenter had us do a learning activity to demonstrate the
effectiveness
of active learning. I believe we had been discussing the theory of
multiple
intelligences at that point, and this demonstrated kinesthetic learning.
We
took a simple quiz on basic knowledge of diabetes. Those of us who
didn't
know someone close to us with diabetes did rather poorly. Then we
participated in an activity where we had to get up and sort of play a
game
about diabetes. One person was the pancreas, a "blood stream" was laid
out
on the floor, some people were blood cells, some people were other cells
in
the body, etc. I remember you had to get a "key" from somewhere and I
think
that had something to do with insulin or the Isles of Langerhans. Of
course
in the end we all had a much better basic understanding of diabetes. The
next day we retook the test and everyone got all the questions correct.
I
still recall that frequent urination is an early warning sign of
diabetes
from the exercise! I'm trying to find that activity and am having no
luck. I
tried contacting my former employer, and I've done searching on the web
and
in databases (educational and nursing), but I am still coming up short.
I
remember that the speaker told us this same activity had been done with
a
group of nursing students. I think one group played the game and the
other
received a lecture. I found a dissertation that did something similar,
but
the game was not the same (that game involved sugar-free candy). I'm
really
looking for the one that involved students role-playing as various parts
of
the circulatory system. I could probably make up something similar, but
would prefer to find the activity I did previously. Thanks for any leads
you
can provide. 

 

Amy Schlumpf Manion

Information Services Librarian

Aurora University

Aurora, IL

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