An Interactive Center on Economic Education to elementary and secondary schools across the United States. Published by EconomicsAmerica with funds from the National Science Foundation, the CD-ROM is designed to give teachers the resources they need to help students at all levels understand the economy and develop basic decision making skills. Newsreel footage, animated graphs, film, visual puns, illustrations bring the concepts to life. The resource includes a 30,000 page economics library of curriculum materials, reference books, lesson plans for every grade, student handouts and more. State Councils on Economic Education are running workshops to distribute the CD-ROM and train elementary and secondary teachers and administrators how to use it.
Teachers have fun deciphering the symbols used to illustrate the concepts.
When they click on them, full explanations of the concepts along with teaching ideas and reference cites from the disc's resource library are provided. Included in the explanation materials is actual newsreel footage of FDR, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and many others who make economic policy. The mission of EconomicsAmerica is to insure that students understand essential economic concepts, are able to use economic ways of thinking and problem solving, and have a solid grasp of the nature and structure of the national and global economy. To find out about how your school can receive their free copy of Virtual Economics, contact your state's Council on Economic Education.