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What's For Dinner?

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Eighth graders discover how the location of restaurants affects the future location of different restaurants. Using a fictionous town, they map the locations of all current restaurants and analyze the data to determine what type of restaurants the town needs and the most successful location. They also discuss the spatial distribution of any patterns they identify.

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8th
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Social Studies & History
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