Economics Online Lessons

SCORE-Principles of Economics
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/grade12e/index.html
Click the "activities" section for online lessons.

EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach.htm
The Economic Education Website, whose goal is to provide support for economic education from K-12 to the college level, provides teacher guides, lesson plans, and activities.

Project GeoSim
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/

EconEd Link-Lessons
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/

EduStock Simulation
http://portia.advanced.org/3088/simulation/simulation.html
Designed to give students a better understanding of how the stock market is an integral part of their everyday life and future security, this interdisciplinary project revolves around an interactive stock market competition between classmates using real-time stock market data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Lemonade Stand
http://www.littlejason.com/lemonade/index.html
This fast paced supply and demand simulation asks students to maximize the money made selling lemonade based on weather conditions, per unit cost, per unit price, and money spend on advertizing.

The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
http://webserve.dowjones.com/classroom/index.html
This site introduces the The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition package and objectives, but also has excerpts from its current edition, including detailed lesson plans.

Stock Market Simulations on the Web
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@OpgeOj6JZAGKk/Pages/article.html?article@stocksims

EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach.htm
The Economic Education Website, whose goal is to provide support for economic education from K-12 to the college level, provides teacher guides, lesson plans, and activities.

EduStock Simulation
http://portia.advanced.org/3088/simulation/simulation.html
Designed to give students a better understanding of how the stock market is an integral part of their everyday life and future security, this interdisciplinary project revolves around an interactive stock market competition between classmates using real-time stock market data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

MainXchange Internet Stock Market Game
http://www.mainxchange.com/
This free game is a good resource for students learning about finance and the stock market. Players are able to access information on about 8,580 companies that are listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, and view their portfolios at anytime. People can play as individuals, and schools can enter a team. A teacher's guide is provided to assist in using the game in the classroom, and sponsoring corporations will provide winning teams with prizes.

The Good News Bears Stock Market Project
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html
The EduStock Simulation uses real-time accurate stock data (20 minutes delayed). Starting with 100,000 dollars you create your own portfolio. With it, you may buy and sell any stock on the NYSE, NASDAQ, or AMEX. With each transaction, you will not face a commissions charge, so that you are free to make as many trades as you like, in order to enhance the learning aspect of the simulation

National Debt Simulation
http://garnet.berkeley.edu:6997/shortbudget.html
Players can decide how to spend the nation’s budget.

ETrade Game
http://www.game.etrade.com
This stock market simulation begins on the first of the month. Participants must register. Choose the stock market game rather than the stock market game plus options. Players may play in teams to buy and sell stock with a $100,000 limit. Trades cost a flat $19.99. Players my check the stock history of any stock they are interested in purchasing. This includes charts and past news reports. Make sure that the players write down their player names and password in a safe place.