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’:
- Diabetes basics including risk factors, risk reduction, symptoms, T1, T2 differences and complications
- Insulin and your body
- Prevention Basics

- What it is like to live with diabetes
- Self-management challenges and support
- Coping at school and preparing for transition to adult healthcare

- 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

- 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