Interactive multimedia technologies can help to make an experience more realistic, and they can offer helpful data management systems that make a complex and variable process much easier to accomplish. The Internet provides a good venue for making such carefully produced and orchestrated simulated experiences accessible to vast numbers of people. Do The Lemonade Stand simulation in small groups, rotating turns and alternating with other activities related to running a business such as entering daily earnings and expenses and calculating profits using a spreadsheet, designing effective advertisements, etc. WebQuest which involves teams of people with different interests and perspectives working together to address social and economic problems effectively. Play a stock market game where teams begin with a certain equal hypothetical sum, they make investments using actual stock market quotes, they follow their investments for a predetermined period, and they compete for the highest total at the end of a that period.
Real tours are often impossible because of time, distance, or cost.
Virtual tours provide an excellent alternative, and students can learn a great deal about a place through a combination of pictures, sound, text, and sometimes video, especially when the information is in a format that allows the students to travel at their own pace and follow a path of their own choosing. Some virtual tours are more linear than others, though the best ones are guided in some way. Of course, the Internet also affords direct links to related subject material, organizations, or other resources. During the online tour, answer questions about life on Plimoth Plantation in the 17th century. Follow an archaeological dig in Egypt week by week, and keep a log of the findings and what they might mean.