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About Sapling Learning

Created and supported by educators, Sapling Learning online homework drives student success and saves educators time. To learn more about Sapling Learning, visit www.saplinglearning.com.

About our interactives

In addition to our proven instructional homework solutions, we provide interactives to engage students in scientific inquiry and enhance their conceptual understanding of difficult topics. You can use these tools in lecture as demos, in small group or lab settings, as well as in our graded homework assignments.

About the Homeostasis interactive

In this interactive, students can change internal environmental conditions for a human and see the effect on blood sugar, insulin, and glucagon levels in healthy and diabetic individuals. They can also predict homeostatic changes to the changing conditions. Press Start to explore the Homeostasis interactive.
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Exercise
Inject Insulin
  • Glucose
  • Insulin
  • Glucagon
  • Glycogen
Concentration in Blood Stream
Blood sugar
Insulin
Glucagon
Normal Glucose Range
Normal Glucose Range
Time (12 hrs total)
Zoom In on
Liver Tissue
View Changes
to
Organ Systems