Education with Aloha
Education with Aloha
Workbooks for grades 9–12 built on real investigations and real data. Twenty case files, two hundred one-page daily warm-ups, unit assessments, a semester exam, and a complete answer key. No lectures, no videos, no prep.
Each book is twelve units. A unit opens with one or two case files and then runs about sixteen school days of warm-ups. The pattern never changes, so after the first week the student doesn't need instructions and the parent doesn't need to prepare.
A real investigation, told as a story, with the science or the data behind it. Each case ends with questions that double as the unit test, including a graph of real data to interpret and a short Investigate It task that sends the student to the primary source.
Every warm-up has the same two steps. Read the Word of the Day and the Fact; then respond to the Question of the Day, use the new word in a sentence, and write a short Quick Write. Ten to fifteen minutes. About every third day includes a calculation.
A Pre-Check before each unit and the case questions after it show what was learned. The answer key has model answers for every written question, a rubric for the Quick Writes, and a progress tracker and credit log for the transcript.
High School Science, Book 1
Twenty real cases, from the two prisoners named West who broke the Bertillon measurement system to the fire investigation that overturned decades of arson science. Each one teaches the evidence behind the headline: fingerprints, fibers, blood, DNA, toxicology, decomposition, bones, ballistics, documents, and arson.
$32.99 · ISBN 979-8-16383-057-2 · Published October 2026
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High School Social Studies, Book 1
Every case file starts with a number that doesn't add up: the Senate vote that counts sixty-seven times, the bill that never got a vote, the 43 percent who call themselves independents but aren't. The data comes from the Senate's own records, the Federal Register, Gallup, and the Federal Judicial Center. The book reports what it shows, states the strongest argument on each side, and leaves the verdict to the student.
$34.99 · Published October 2026
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Education with Aloha is run by Pat Murphey, a high school science teacher on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi who has taught since 2011. The workbooks grew out of the daily warm-up routine he uses in his own classroom, and they're written for students who are working on their own: everything needed to answer is on the page or in the case file.
The same routine runs the Education with Aloha store on Teachers Pay Teachers, where the bell ringers, video guides, and lab activities are used by tens of thousands of teachers.
Questions about the books, review copies for reviewers and co-ops, or bulk orders for micro-schools:
Education with Aloha LLC
Keaʻau, Hawaiʻi
