Available Courses

• Implementing Virtual Economics into the K-12 Classroom

  

  
  

  This online module teaches you how to use and implement the Virtual Economics® resources into your K-12 economics and/or personal finance course.
  

  Audience: High School Teachers
  

  Time: 1-2 hours

• Teaching the Role of Markets and Capital Formation in Economic Growth

  

  This module focuses on those choices that involve the use of financial resources with particular attention on the long and short run consequences. For the individual these may be choices about how much money to spend and how much to save, or how much to invest and how to invest. It also considers the ways in which firms use financial resources in order to build capacity and to become more productive.
  
  By completing of this module, you will:
  

  • Deepen your understanding of capital formation and global markets.
  • Connect the importance of capital formation to teaching Economics, Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship.
  • Learn how integrating capital formation into economics teaching will engage and motivate students.
  • Discover educational resources that you can use with your students.

  Audience: High School Teachers
  
  Time: 7-8 Hours
• Learning, Earning and Investing

  

  
  

  This online module teaches you how to implement the Learning, Earning and Investing materials into your high school economics and/or personal finance course.

  Audience: Middle School & High School Teachers
  

  Time: 2-4 hours

• Focus: Understanding Economics in US History

  

  
  

  This online module teaches you how to implement the Focus: Understanding Economics in US History materials into your high school US History course.

  Audience: High School Teachers
  

  Time: 2-4 hours

• Teaching Personal Finance

    

  This online module teaches you how to teach and integrate personal finance into your secondary economics, business, consumer and family science or mathematics course.

  Audience: Secondary School Teachers

  Time: 3-6 hours

• Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Students

  

  
  

  This online module teaches you how to implement the Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics materials into your high school economics course.

  Audience: High School Teachers
  

  Time: 2-4 hours

• Teaching Globalization to High School Students

  

  
  

  This online module teaches you how to implement the Focus: Globalization materials into your high school economics/social studies course.

  Audience: High School Teachers
  

  Time: 2-4 hours