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What if you could find one tool that takes the grunt work out of lesson planning for economics and personal finance?

As you know, looking for economics and personal finance lesson plans in your textbooks and online is a full time job on its own, and when you factor in that the lessons plans and activities have to jive with your students and correlate with the most up-to-date state content standards it's almost an impossible task.

So how should you approach this on-going and often hopeless search?

Discover an all-in-one CD-ROM --Virtual Economics-- your one-stop resource to print-based, web-based and multimedia resources. With over 1200 K-12 economics and personal finance lesson plans and 51 concepts your search for lessons has just come to an end. Plus, these bordem-proof resources give your students an active learning approach with interactive simulations, role playing activities and multimedia clips.

So stop planning and start teaching, and give your students a lifelong appreciation of economics...and make your classroom the "place to be".

How Many Different Ways Can You Find Economics and Personal Finance Lesson Plans?

Put your mouse and keyboard to work with five simple ways to lesson-search:

• Search by grade level-Start your search with over 1200 elementary, middle school and high school lesson plans.
• Organize your search by concept-Narrow your grade-specific search with key economic and personal finance concepts.
• Browse over 80 Publications-Need a specific publication related to your subject area? Choose from over 80 economics and personal finance publications that integrate mathematics, US history, science, language arts and more into your instruction.
• Meet State Standards- Filter your search even more and choose lesson plans that meet your state content standards.
• Cover 51 Key Concepts-Browse through a library of 51 concepts in 5 must-know economics and personal finance categories.

Now That You've Found Your Lesson Plans, Enhance Your Instruction with More Helpful Teaching Tools

Build on your lesson plans with these five unique features:

• Multimedia Concept Demonstrations-Add multimedia content to your instruction with interactive concept demonstrations that'll look great on that new high-tech whiteboard.
• Web-base Tools-Integrate a web-based component to your lesson plans with an on-line search filter.
• Glossary of 500+ Economics Terms and Definitions-Browse an exhaustive 500 word glossary to give you and your students a quick overview of key concepts.
• Printable Lesson Plans and Activities- Put your lesson plans and activities to use, just hit "print" and pass them out to your students.
• Teaching Tips-Not sure how to teach a concept? Don't panic, just refer to helpful library of teaching tips designed to keep the classroom topic on target.

Easily Combine Lesson Planning with Learning and Teaching

Plan your daily lessons and activities quickly and strengthen your students' and your own economics and personal finance skills.

Learning

Yes, you are the teacher and the classroom guru, but brushing up on your own knowledge will help you teach better.

Not everyone is fluent in economics and even as a teacher you might find yourself struggling with understanding certain concepts. To help ease your anxiety explore 51 key concepts in 5 categories designed to give you an easy-to-understand overview of fundamental economics and personal finance topics. And, for an extra helping hand, each concept is linked to a handy glossary.

Planning

Plan you economics and personal finance lessons in minutes instead of hours, days and weeks.

Lesson planning can't get any easier than a click of the mouse. Browse through countless lesson plans related to each of the 51 concepts. Once you have found the lesson plan you need hit "print" and you are ready to teach.

Teaching

Teach your economics and personal finance lesson plans with the most up-to-date instructional strategies.

Discover multimedia videos linked to each of the 51 concepts. The videos visually demonstrates each economics and personal finance concept and make for a perfect introductory clip. Plus, with helpful teaching tips for each topic and theme you'll have an easier time teaching the content and your students will build a stronger foundation in economics and personal finance.

A User-Friendly Classroom Management Tool

Putting together an engaging economics-focused class session has never been easier.

Search, find, and print your way to outstanding results with VE3. Because it's portable, you can research and plan your lessons in your classroom, at home, a coffee shop, or in your school's computer lab.

And don't forget: each lesson plan instills a lifelong interest in economics and personal finance in your students. You'll appreciate the ease-of-use and rich teaching tools of VE3.

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Minimum System Requirements

Windows Windows 98 Pentium 3 processor 256MB RAM Sound Card

Macintosh Classic 9.2; OS X G3 Processor 256MB RAM Sound Card

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Teacher Feedback

Do you use these materials? Please provide feedback for other teachers.

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"As an educator and administrator-economics education for students has been sorely lacking. This spiraling software program allows teachers to begin early economic concepts and spiral throughout the grades. In our global economy this is imperative for students!"

- Susan Zacherl, Principal, 24 years Social Studies teacher and 9 years principal Fond du Lac Area Catholic School Education System, WI

"I plan to use Virtual Economics with 3-5 students, especially 5th during their study of the stock market. I plan to use the glossary and multimedia presentations frequently."

- Jenny Horsey, Naperville, IL

Web Site

Visit the web site to find a comprehensive listing of lessons available on the CD-ROM, answer technical questions, and download a Workshop Leader's Guide.

• ve.councilforeconed.org

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