New Features

Virtual Economics

Version 4.0 is available as

a CD-ROM

Virtual Economics is

also available as a 1 GB USB Flash

Drive

New Features

20+ new publications

• Playful Economics

• Financial Fitness for Life:

K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12 Student Workbooks and Teacher Guides

• Teaching Financial Crises

• Civics and Government

• What Personal Finance is About

• What Economics is About

• Economics & Entrepreneurship

• Trading Around the World

• Focus: Economics – Grades K-2

• And many more

New Features

Improved performance, primarily with searching• Faster searches

• Number of lessons displayed

• Online lessons automatically displayed

• Offline message displayed for users without an internet connection

New Features

State standards updated and personal finance standards added

• Users can easily switch between Economics and Personal Finance standards.

• Date standards were updated is clearly visible.

New Features

Lessons open full-screen• Lessons open in a

separate viewer, allowing users to view them at any size, print, or save any lesson they choose from their viewer.

New Features

Lessons can be saved to your computer or USB Flash Drive

• Each lesson page has a Save button, allowing users to save the document in any folder on their computer or USB Flash Drive.

New Features

Updated content for many of the concepts

• Content has been updated to provide updated data, graphs, etc.

New Features

Short quizzes added for each concept

• Each quiz contains 5 multiple choice questions that pertain to the concept video.

• Quiz results can be emailed from student to teacher with an internet connection.

New Features

Online resources integrated for each concept

• Resources include links to online lessons and videos with similar concepts.

• Many of the online resources come from EconEdLink.org, a free economics and personal finance resource for teachers, students, and afterschool programs.

• New resources are added dynamically with an internet connection.

New Features

Concept Overviews, Tips, Lessons and Quizzes can be printed• The print box gives

users the option to select individual sections of the concept that they want printed.

New Features

Concept videos can be viewed full-screen

• The Full Screen tab at the bottom of the video box allows users to view both concept videos and quizzes full-screen.

• The size of the application window can also be changed, making it easy to use Virtual Economics with a projector.

New Features

Time display added to

all concept videos• The time display shows

both current and total time, allowing users to easily navigate to specific points in each video.

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