Flying High/Beating Diabetes 6-pack ISBN: 9780478277012 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 4 Reading Level: S

Flying High

A young basketball player has to give up his dream of playing professional basketball when he finds out that he has diabetes. His uncle encourages him to "fly high" by making kites instead.

Beating Diabetes

Until the discovery of insulin in 1922, many people died from diabetes.  Since then, scientists' knowledge and develpments in technology have greatly improved the ways in which the disease is treated and millions of lives have been saved.