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Let's Get Physical

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Explore the benefits of physical activity and how it will affect your students' health. Students track their physical activities for one week and then compare their results.  Collaboration with a math teacher woould be useful as it would allow for greater analysis of the data.

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8th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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