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What is your attitude on health and illness? By considering their own experiences, students will reflect on and discuss their attitudes toward health and illness while educating each other by researching illnesses in small groups, creating a handbook, and writing response papers. The final activity will be to complete a survey. Tip: Add a pre-survey and compare results.

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diabetes, illness, obesity

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Health, illness, diabetes, obesity, science
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6th - 12th
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Science
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