Lectures and discussions. Simulations to participate in and adapt to your own classroom and community. Interaction with colleagues. Topics connect basic economic principles to current environmental issues. How markets convey information and offer incentives or disincentives.
Teachers participate in the simulation and then adapt it to their own communities.
Things seen and not seen. In the five years the program has been offered, a majority of the participants have been high school economics, social studies, history and government teachers. A limited number of participants have been middle grades social studies teachers and directors of university centers for economic education. The program is designed to integrate classroom discussion involving market solutions to environmental issues. While participants return to their classrooms with the knowledge to accomplish this goal, several have received local and statewide grant funding so they can provide such training to teachers in their own area.