JoinYou Make the Diagnosis
Many of our nation’s health concerns affect our students in a personal way. For example, there are over 750,000 new cases of diabetes mellitus every year; chances are that some of your students have family members with diabetes. Why not examine the cause-and-effect relationship between students’ nutritional choices and their health? In the activity described here, students use simulated urine samples to look for indicators of general health and a risk of diabetes.