Pilot Real Lives in your school for free! We believe Real Lives 2007 is a fantastic product - and a wonderful teaching tool - but there is really no way for you to know until you use it. Real Lives Pilot is our way of providing you and your students an opportunity to use Real Lives in the classroom. For free. We are convinced that once you see the impact on your students you will go ahead and buy Real Lives 2007 - but don't take our word for it, try it in the classrrom and let us know what you think! All of the tools required to try Real Lives 2007 are right here on our web-site. Pilot Instructions We have conducted hundreds of Real Lives pilots in schools around the country, and have created a framework for a successful pilot test. Of course, you can test Real Lives any way you want to at your school, but our experience tells us that schools are most successful testing Real Lives when they follow these steps. 1. Decide when you would like to test Real Lives. 2. Download a copy of Real Lives to your computer, and install it. Your eval period begins with the first use of Real Lives. 3. (Important) At this point, it is a good idea to try the virtual tour. It can provide a brief orientation to the software and show you some features you might not find on your own. 4. Try Real Lives. Do some simulations on your own, so you can get a feel for how information is presented. Press all the buttons. Use all the features in the menus. 5. Also, be sure to review our online lesson plans. Here, you’ll find lesson plans correlated to national education standards, lesson ideas, worksheets and information that will help your students learn from Real Lives as they test it. 6. Decide which activities you would like your students to try. 7. Demonstrate Real Lives to your students. This should take about 10 to 15 minutes. 8. Download the Real Lives trial to the computers your students will use. Downloads take about 1-2 minutes on most school networks. Download Real Lives to as many computers as you want to use for your pilot program. 9. Have the students use Real Lives and complete the assignment(s) you selected. (In some cases, you will project Real Lives in front of the whole class, and do an assignment as a class activity). 10. When you are done with your pilot, Educational Simulations will be interested in knowing how things went. If you are so inclined, we would be thrilled if you and your students take our online survey. Also feel free to give us a call or send email to let us know what you think. This is an important means by which we can improve Real Lives. 11. We hope that after the pilot phase, you will want to make Real Lives a permanent part of your curriculum. If that's the case, then please give us a call or visit the online store.