Health - Diabetes

 These past few weeks for health we were tasked to pick an issue in life that can affect peoples daily lives or already has. We were tasked to research and then create a DLO that could help others with or to inform them about the problem. I chose to do Type 1 diabetes, as it is quite common in my family. First, we were asked to pick a group we wanted to be marked in, the three groups were rookie, Pro and Legend, I decided to pick Legend. We were then asked to pick five questions that we wanted to answer during this whole process. The questions I chose were;

- When and why did this become an issue in NZ?
- What long term effects does diabetes give to people?
- What assumptions are made?
- How is it passed down from parents to children?
- When and why do people get diabetes?

After picking our questions we were left to research for a few lessons, which let me learn a lot about Type 1 diabetes as I didn't know much beforehand. After researching we were tasked to create a DLO about what we have learnt that also answered our questions, I decided to make a poster about it as I find making posters are fun.

here is my final poster

It was challenging when I had to find out my information about Diabetes in New Zealand as many sites I found were foreign and didn't help me that much. I started looking for news articles as it recently has been on the news which did help a lot though. Next time I will try to find more about diabetes type 2 as now it has interested me a lot as most New Zealanders have diabetes type 2. I'm proud about how I was able to learn a lot that normally I wouldn't be that interested in which is nice.