NEW OCR Biology A 5.4.5 Diabetes: Type 1 and 2 and the source of Insulin

An interesting and detailed lesson on Diabetes mellitus, including video links to patient stories from the NHS website. It also includes some interesting and thought-provoking statistics about Diabetes to get students thinking about the implications of this rapidly increasing disease.

The lesson explains in detail, the differences between Diabetes type 1 and 2, including the causes, treatments and risk factors. It also describes how we obtain insulin for treating diabetes, and the pros and cons of each source.

This lesson comes with a fun, recap or revision Bingo game on the pancreas and regulation of glucose to recap the previous lesson.

There is also a past exam questions and a true or false plenary included to finish.

5.4.5.(e) To know the differences between Type 1 and Type 2
diabetes mellitus.
To include the causes of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
and the treatments used for each.
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(f) To know the potential treatments for diabetes mellitus. To include the use of insulin produced by genetically modified bacteria and the potential use of stem cells to treat diabetes mellitus.