Interactive Webinars for Schools – Grades 6 – 12

SFBLF is providing a series of pre-scheduled, interactive webinars for schools. The webinars are delivered by the SFBLF Program Director via Zoom, Google Meets or Microsoft Teams.

  • At time of scheduling, teachers will need to identify the platform required.
  • Each webinar is one hour in length including a multi-media tutorial, interactive questions for students and ends with a segment for students to ask their questions.
  • Delivery is adjusted to be age-appropriate. Webinar length can be adjusted to match the available teaching time block.
  • Teachers can schedule a webinar Monday to Friday between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm

Interactive Webinar Themes

Teachers can select a Webinar from among 4 ‘themes’:

1. Understanding Diabetes

  • Diabetes basics including risk factors, risk reduction, symptoms, T1, T2 differences and complications
  • Insulin and your body
  • Prevention Basics
2. Living with Diabetes & the Impact

  • What it is like to live with diabetes
  • Self-management challenges and support
  • Coping at school and preparing for transition to adult healthcare
3. Discovery of Insulin and the lasting impact

  • The discovery process and team, early patients, achieving mass production
  • The lasting impact of the discovery on Canadian medical research and worldwide advocacy
  • Insulin, serendipity and the Nobel Prize
4. About Banting

  • Banting’s early years
  • Banting the scientist, inventor, soldier and artist
  • How the world remembers

 

Post-Webinar, Team-based Competition for Students

The program offers a post-webinar, team-based competition requiring students to complete an online Quiz based on each Webinar topic. Members of the team having the highest average mark will receive a modest prize. Classes wishing to participate in the post-Webinar competition need to assemble their Teams before the Webinar. Each Team must include at least 4 and not more than 6 students. 

  • Each Team will need to create a unique Team identification, i.e., school/grade/moniker, e.g., ‘BMHS10hotshots’, to be used by each Team member when accessing the Quiz.
  • The online Quiz for each Webinar can be accessed at any time from desktop and mobile devices.
  • Team members must complete the Quiz within one week following the Webinar.
  • The class teacher will be provided with the correct answers and Team results at the end.
  • Prizes for winning Team members will be mailed to the school c/o the teacher.

To schedule a webinar for your class, contact kait@bantinglegacy.ca

Interactive Webinars for Groups

SFBLF also offers selected interactive Webinars for service clubs, churches, and other groups with common interests.

Topics that have proven of interest to many groups include:

  • About SFBLF programs and activities
  • The history and evolution of the Banting homestead
  • Understanding diabetes
  • Living with diabetes and the impact
  • Discovery of insulin and the lasting impact
  • About Banting

Selected combinations of the above topics can also be accommodated.

Group webinars need to be pre-scheduled. Early evening sessions are available.

Group webinars are interactive and delivered by the SFBLF Program Director using Zoom.

To schedule a webinar for your Group, contact kait@bantinglegacy.ca