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IT'S THE KIDS!

Educating Future Generations

by Barbara Barnes

A Real-World Learning Framework Teaching K-12 Students Skills for Life, Work, Citizenship and Service

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PROJECTS

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All subjects are integrated to study a particular issue and the latest technologies are utilized to document and record information. Twelve generic Projects are provided, but students and educators can create their own investigation based on a local issue. Examples of student Projects can be found in our Books and Project Library.

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LA28 OLYMPICS
INVESTIGATION

A Real-World Skills Workbook K-8

The 2028 Summer Olympics are coming to Los Angeles—and we have questions! Where will the events take place? How does the city prepare? What do athletes, artists, engineers, and communities do
to make the Games possible? This Investigation Kit invites you to explore these big questions—all with the help of our awesome team of characters!

FREE PROJECTS

Click on images to download exciting real-world-based learning projects

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EduKids

EDUKIDS EDUCATE

A Real-World Skills Workbook K-8

Let your friendly guides Drop, Coin, Map, Temp, and more help your kids investigate the world around them with this FREE real-world skills workbook! Includes 12 Project topics and Judging Matrix.

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PROJECT LIBRARY

Implementation examples that show how specific schools have adapted the Projects and implemented them with their students. These examples include elementary, middle, high schools and home schools.

One teacher, a STEM coach, partnered with the Assistance League of Laguna Beach who provided funding for Makerspace materials from Two Bit Circuits for students to design and build structures. Due to the size of the campus on the Marine Corps Base, a Smartcart was donated for use by administrators and custodians.

Design & Build

One teacher, a STEM coach, partnered with the Assistance League of Laguna Beach who provided funding for Makerspace materials.

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A teacher and classroom partnered with the Medtronic Foundation to study health and fitness. The students used pedometers, tested blood pressure, and dissected heart valves to study health issues in relation to fitness. The students also researched the heart valve work being done at Medtronic Corporation and created a CD of their fitness investigations for the corporation.

Investigating Fitness

A teacher and classroom partnered with the Medtronic Foundation to study health and fitness.

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A partnership opportunity happened in the fourth grade Just Cookies company, where students created a business plan, estimated the number of cookies they needed to sell to raise enough money for an overnight ocean trip, and determined the number of customers in the school and the number of sale days. They produced a TV commercial for Just Cookies that was shown on SOS TV throughout the school. When the students reached their profit goal they "leased" the business to another class who took it under "new management."

Just Cookies

San Onofre 4th graders created a business: Just Cookies. Students created a business plan, estimated the number of cookies they needed to sell, and more...!

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QUIZ CARDS

EFG LEARNING PROJECTS

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