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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.
For more information visit
ve.councilforeconed.org