In recent years it has become evident that more and more of our students are having difficulty with weight and learning. It has become almost an epidemic that students are growing up obese and overweight. As a result students are not performing well in school. With school districts cutting budgets, the first things to go are the physical education classes. This prompted me to research the benefits of having physical activities in the classroom and how it affects the brain. The eight week study that took place in an urban school in Philadelphia was done in a multiage inclusion ...