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Home > For professionals > Education professionals > Type 1 diabetes School Pack activity plans
You may choose to use the activities below as a scheme of work or as individual lessons which can be integrated into your planned sessions. Each key stage has a series of resources. You’ll need the full set from each series to build a full lesson.
Introduces the activities and learning outcomes.
Use this short presentation to introduce and structure the activities.
This short story book explores what happens to the food you eat and what happens when you have type 1 diabetes.
Work in pairs to cut out and describe the organs and place them correctly onto the body template.
Produce a cartoon strip (with pictures and descriptions) to explain how blood glucose is controlled.
Create a script and carry out a role play interview all about type 1 diabetes.
Learn about the causes, signs and symptoms of type 1, the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and how the condition is treated.
This free e-learning module has been designed to help teaching staff provide appropriate support for children or young people with type 1 in their care.
Explore shared stories, videos, tech animations, Breakthrough T1D UK’s Discovery magazine, articles, guides and interactive tools – all to help build your knowledge of type 1 diabetes.
Schools up and down the country are raising money to help fund our life changing research. We have a whole host of fun activities and ideas for you to try at school or you can bring your own idea to life.