Reading, writing and arithmetic. Those three Rs of education first appeared in print in the 19th century, but the idea dates back nearly500 years earlier. While the tenets have mostly remained the focal point of basic skills, times are changing, and withthem the call for real-life applications to education. At the LBI School in Ship Bottom, sixth-graders are getting just that, thanks to a cross-curricular unit of career exploration.

“It is so important that our students begin to think about the future and to recognize how the curriculum they learn…