Lesson Dissemination – A. Pittman

My unit plan on diabetes turned out to be so long that I wonder if anyone else will ever use it. Another teacher could pick and choose the parts he or she wanted to use, but will the sheer size of the unit plan scare off everyone? It was so much work to put all that together, that I hope it is useful to others. Well, even if not, I know it made a huge difference in how I taught Honors Biology last semester. And I am very proud of my students for all they put into the projects, and what they accomplished. The high points for me were when they taught what they had learned about the topics each group researched about diabetes to 4th and 5th grade classes, seeing the quality of the educational displays they made (after many revisions!), and seeing those displays exhibited in public – especially at a health fair at community health and fitness center.