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 #1
Rough Draft # 2
Rough Draft #3
Rough Draft #3
Rough Draft #3
Final Draft
Final Draft
• What you need to turn in your final draft.
*Turn it in all together
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1st draft
2nd draft
3rd 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 1st draft.
Task:
Your 1st draft of your comic is due today! 
Please take out your 1st draft along with the checklist.
Today you will complete a peer review of each others 1st draft.
Everyone’s draft will have at least 6 student reviews.
You will do a gallery walk, moving from table to table.
Leave your 1st 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 2nd draft for my comic strip.
Task:
Complete the NYS Science exam review. (8 mins.)
Cellular Respiration: Using food (sugar) and oxygen from breathing to provide energy
C6H12O6 + 6 O2

Energy + 6 CO2 + 6 H2O
Cell
Energy
C6H12O6
+
Oxygen
O2
+
Carbon dioxide
CO2
+
Photosynthesis: producers/autotrophs use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to
made sugar (food) and oxygen.
(6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Sunlight  C6H12O6 + 6 O2)
+
+
Oxygen
O2
+
Carbon dioxide
CO2
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
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1st draft (Due Friday May 31st)
2nd draft (Wednesday June 5th)
3rd draft (Due Monday June 10th)
Feedback from three other students and a teacher
Research notes
Comic Strip Checklist
FINAL DRAFT (Due Friday June 14th)
Things to focus on for 2nd 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