Which part of the living system did you change?
Labs / Biology
Blood Sugar Balance
Every meal floods your blood with glucose, and your pancreas fights to push it back into the green target band. Hit Eat meal to watch insulin drive sugar into your cells, or Exerciseto let glucagon release the liver's reserves. Then switch to a diabetic pancreas and see what happens when the insulin response fails.
Labs / Biology / Blood Sugar Balance
Blood Sugar Balance
Every meal floods your blood with glucose, and your pancreas fights to push it back into the green target band. Hit Eat meal to watch insulin drive sugar into your cells, or Exerciseto let glucagon release the liver's reserves. Then switch to a diabetic pancreas and see what happens when the insulin response fails.
Why it matters
Why explore this?
Living systems are connected and constantly changing. This model makes one biological process visible so you can test how its parts affect one another.
Explore
Try the model
Glucose 96 mg/dLInsulin 0.0Glucagon 0.0Out of range 0 %
Investigate
Questions to test
Predict first, try it in the model, then use what you observe to answer.
What to try
- Eat a big meal with a healthy pancreas. How high does glucose spike, and how long until insulin drags it back into range?
- Switch to the Type 1 diabetic pancreas and eat the same meal. Why does the glucose line climb so much higher and stay there?
- In diabetic mode, tap Inject insulin after a meal. Can you time the dose to keep the trace inside the band?
- Hit Exercise when glucose is already near the bottom of the band. What does glucagon do to stop you from crashing too low?
- Watch the "out of range" readout over several minutes. Which pancreas keeps you in the healthy zone a larger share of the time?
Explain
Make sense of what happened
Explain the process as a chain: a change happens, the system responds, and that response affects what happens next. Use an observation from the model as evidence.
Check
Before you leave
How did the system respond?
How would you explain that response?
If you can answer all three using evidence from the model, you understand the main idea. If not, return to Explore and change one setting at a time.