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MedLab: Diabetes
Complete authentic medical tests using professional lab tools and work hands-on with a state-of-the-art human patient simulation robot to diagnose and understand diabetes.

About the lab
- Grades: 7-12
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Cost: $120
- Offered Tuesday through Friday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
Next Generation Science Standards
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts:
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Systems and system models
- Structure and function
- Stability and change
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
Middle School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- LS1.A: Structure and Function
- LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
High School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- LS1.A: Structure and Function
LS 3: Heredity: inheritance and variation of traits
ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
Lab goals
Students will:
- Gain a greater understanding of medicine, physiology and anatomy.
- Learn how personal choices impact community health issues.
- Gain a greater understanding of, and increased interest in, a range of health and science careers that impact community and individual health.
- Feel empowered to take initiative in improving personal, family and/or community health.
- Actively engage in inquiry-based, hands-on science investigation.
- Work collaboratively with peers.
- Communicate using terminology/vocabulary accurately.
- Analyze test results, develop a diagnosis and suggest treatment for illness.
This program was developed under a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health.
