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LIENS
Technologie
dapprentissage
Links
to learning technology resources
Teaching
with Electronic Technology
Utilisation de la Technologie de l'information
Site consacré au français collégial.
Carrefour
Education, le portail Internet des enseignants du Québec (Télé-Québec,
en collaboration avec le gouvernement du Québec et le Ministère
de l'éducation, août 99)
Répertoire
de ressources didactiques, informations sur les rencontres pédagogiques,
aides tecnologiques et légales.
Cyberscol
Projets scolaires mettant à profit les ressources du Web.
Direction des ressources didactiques du Ministère de l'Éducation
L'Ecole
branchée
Excellent
répertoire de sites institutionnels et documentaires traitant d'éducation
pour les professeurs (ancien "Infobourg"), les parents et les élèves.
Espace
scientifique francophone (REFER)
Le site québécois pour l'enseignement supérieur
et la recherche francophone.
Le
Français au secondaire (Diane Gagnon)
Répertoire de ressources Internet pour l'enseignement du français,
langue maternelle.
Guide des meilleurs sites pour l'amélioration de la langue (Charles Gravel, CCDMD)
Petites écoles et classes multiprogrammes
Savoir
Net, l'encyclopédie étudiante
Consultation et édition de travaux d'étudiants.
Technologie
et Education: la vitrine APO
Consultez l'ISEF ou
l'Index des sites éducatifs de la francophonie qui regroupe
plus de 500 sites éducatifs francophones, offre une banque de logiciels
et partagiciels ainsi que d'autres ressources.
Directory
of World Wide Web Pages for Teachers and Students
The
links to useful economic education webs are organized as follows:
General Economics Education
Sites
Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Index
to FRBSF Research Pages,
SF Federal Reserve
FRBSF Economic Letter,
Ask Dr.
Econ! from the Federal Reserve Banks.
Money
Management International
These
resources are designed to provide educators with strategies for teaching
personal finance education in the classroom. Includes lesson plans designed
for use in grades 3 - 6. These lessons teach personal finance concepts
through the use of children's trade books. A new lesson will appear every
month.
Department
of Economics at the University of Melbourne provides on-line materials
which will help you improve your learning skills. Some of the sites mentioned
below have ideas which will help you make an easier transition from your
school environment to a university environment. Some of them offer study
tips for Economics in particular.
Business
and Computer Science Materials for Middle School
A
business and computer science site that lists assignments, lesson plans,
handouts, notes, web resources, and over 200 student generated web projects
on the web. Rod Hames, Crews Middle School.
Sections
on Education, Business, Business News, Careers and Work, Investing Money
and Finance, Online Investing
Weiser--useful
links to career and economic information
Career
exploration and school-to-work, cooperatives, economic data, economic education,
environmental economics, Federal Reserve, financial markets, international
economics, news and entertainment, poverty, resources for economists, search
engines, and K-12: links for teachers
Robert Dixon's site for teaching economics.
An
excellent site for lots of links and leads about teaching K-12 economics!
Also includes annotated lists of sites and resources, including Australian
data and other information.
"Woodrow" web at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
All
kinds of good ideas and curriculum materials for teaching economics!
Economic Education pages at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Tours,
a quiz, other ideas for teaching economics!
lots
of information about teaching economics (and also lots of ads).
Richmond
Federal Reserve site "Equilibria Chat" where economics teachers can ask
questions, give answers, share ideas, spread news, and turn for help.
Video
Conferencing and collaborative projects
This
collection is the product of a collaborative teacher sharing project. A
few of them are economics. Teachers who have been integrating video conferencing
into the curriculum have contributed their ideas and suggestions.
The
Economic Behavior of Children
A
site devoted to the study of economic behavior of children, by Bill Harbaugh
and Kate Krause. "We believe we can learn a great deal about the economic
behavior of adults by studying the development of that behavior in children."
Blue
Squirrel's educational website
Website
designed for educators at school and home. Blue Squirrel also has Homesite
Educator, a new software suite designed to enable homeschooling
The
Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center State Budget Game
A
State Budget Game for High School. Players are nominated to run for governor,
receive a budget briefing from their advisors, choose a political platform
to run on, and then, after the election, they must make taxing and spending
decisions to balance the budget while keeping their campaign promises.
Finally, players receive a political score for what they do. About Kentucky,
but principles apply to your state, too. Download free by following the
links from this address.
Offers
teachers and tutors the opportunity to post their resume for free on the
Internet. Then, students browse the available tutors on this site and read
about their educational and work background. If a student feels that a
tutor on this database would be able to help them in any specific subject
they can e-mail or phone the tutor to talk about potential tutoring arrangements.
Social
Science Gateway and
Economics
and Business Education Association (EBEA) from UK
EBEA
represents teachers of economics, business, and related subjects in schools
and colleges in the UK. The Web page seeks to enhance the mission of providing
professional support in the classroom, and developing economics and business
education within a broadly based curriculum.
Journal
of Economic Education Web
This
is the home page of the leading journal focusing on economic education.
Along with information about submission and subscription, tables of content
are provided to assist you to find the topic of interest.
Research
in Economic Education Database
Searchable
database for researchers in economic education maintained by William Walstad
at the National Center for Research in Economic Education at University
of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Tramline
Tours for Business Students
Every
Tramline Tour takes you to a series of preselected Web pages that are related
by topic. A separate window is used to describe what you're seeing or tell
you what to do next. Several for business students, but many other tours
also.
College
Board AP Economics Information AP
Examination Subject Index
The
AP Program offers two separate examinations in economics: one in microeconomics
and one in macroeconomics. The material on each examination is intended
to correspond to at least one semester of college-level instruction.
North
Hagerstown High School Website
A
great example of a school website!
Education
search engine sponsored by B.E.S.T. education search engine.
Yahoo
Social Sciences and Economics Sections
Index
and search engine for Economics pages of Yahoo.
"Classroom
Connect" Information on How to Cite Internet Sources
If
your students are using Internet sources of information in their work,
they (and you) need to learn how to properly cite this material in their
bibliographies.
°
The
Columbia Guide to Online Style
MLA
Style Guide from Columbia University
Macro Data; Government
Budgets and Debt
Great
source for quick up-to-date information. Grab the latest numbers before
class!
Office
of Management and Budget
Federal
Budget Java Site by Kowal Design
Contains
a simple, neat, point-and-click presentation of the entire Federal budget.
To explore the budget, click the button. When downloading is complete (buttons
take a few minutes), explore choices to balance the Federal budget. Find
solutions to reduce the National Debt. Learn how Federal budget dollars
are spent on Education, Health Care, Defense, and the Environment.
On-line
National Federal Budget Simulator--try your hand at balancing the budget
This
is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for
Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget
Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget.
Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.
Concord
Coalition on National Debt
The
Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to
eliminating federal budget deficits and ensuring Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid are secure for all generations. Has lots of information on
the budget and debt.
°
Institute
for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in the UK:
IFS
Virtual Economy
At the heart of the UK Virtual Economy are sophisticated computer models
which are very similar to those the Chancellor and his advisors use to
prepare the Budget and to keep the economy on track.
Money, Currencies, and
Finance; International
Extensive,
long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange
rates and inflation rates. Database provides historical data on over 50
countries and goes back to the 1690s. Exchange rates of all national currencies
are presented in terms of the U.S. dollar. You can also change the basis
from the U.S. dollar to another currency of your choice.
Central
Banking Resource Center
The
Internet's most complete directory of central bank sites from all over
the world. For bankers, economists, academics, policymakers, regulators,
financial journalists, consultants and others. In addition to central bank
home pages, includes links to information about central banks.
Currency
Project for Students (from Australia)
A
currency comparison project for student participation from WimmeraNet in
Australia. Compare what your currency will buy with what five Australian
dollars will buy.
See
these exchange rate currency converters:
The
Universal Currency Converter
EconoFinance
Currency Converter
At
these Web sites the exchange rates of currencies are presented in terms
of the currency you choose.
Ronald
W. Schuelke's educational economics software for students and educators
which simulates the economic performance and policies of countries in the
global economy. The object of the game is to be the best at selecting economic
policies to maintain full employment, low inflation, and economic growth
without excessive pollution (modestly priced).
Links
to Educational Resources in Finance
This
page references online finance courses, multimedia & software, downloadable
slides, textbooks, bookstores, articles, simulators & games and information
on publishers. From Ohio State University
The
CME is the first futures and options exchange on the World Wide Web. Here
you can find daily settlement prices of all CME futures and options, marketing
page with product information, educational programs, and more.
Stock Market Information
E*Trade
A
leading online investment company. Also a good source for stock quotes,
charts, and other stock market information. Although E*Trade is NOT a game,
it also has a game with "play money" designed to show off their online
investing.
This
page demonstrates the rewards of saving and investing in stocks. It has
a section for educators with instructions on how to select stocks and how
to set up a simulation stock market game for students using actual stock
values. It has a real-life example to show you how to build a stock portfolio
full of 2-, 4-, and 8-baggers.
This
site has nice graphs of price and volume of stock market outcomes.
S
& P Personal Wealth Web Site
Crews
Stock Market Simulation Game
Eighth
grade students are asked to create an imaginary company and use several
different software programs to complete realistic and challenging projects
associated with their company. A complete course from Crews Middle School
by Rod Hames.
Investment
Challenge Stock Market Simulation
Investment
Challenge is a realistic stock market simulation dedicated to enhancing
investment education at the National level through interactive, online
simulation.
A
guide to investment and financial resources on the web.
Edustock
Designed
to teach young and old alike, what the stock market is, and how it can
work for them. It includes tutorials on the stock market and how to pick
good stocks. It also provides information on a select group of companies
to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune.
Last of all, it provides a FREE 20 minute delayed Stock market simulation
on the World Wide Web. Includes pages on how to examine company profiles
and stock market simulations. Has a simulation that uses real-time accurate
stock data (20 minutes delayed.
Personal Finance, Consumer
education, Math
National
Institute for Consumer Education
The
National Institute for Consumer Education, from the College of Education
at Eastern Michigan University, is a professional development center and
resource clearinghouse in consumer, economic and personal finance education.
The mission of NICE is to empower people through education to become informed
consumers, reasoned decision makers and participating citizens in a global
marketplace. This site has some very nice lessons on consumer issues, such
as college financial aid, student budgets, saving for college education,
etc.
The
Mint
This
site includes everything your students need to know about money, including
how it's made, how to spend it, and, most importantly, how to save it.
Students can begin to understand their own roles in the economy, as well
as read about common economic terms like inflation. In this high-tech era,
the site serves students well by giving them ideas about becoming entrepreneurs.
The quizzes offer excellent challenges, and the economic dictionary is
a good study tool. An integrated web site designed for middle school and
high school students, their teachers and parents.
Investopedia
is your complete, unbiased and easy to understand educational guide to
investing and personal finance. The site includes the most comprehensive
investing dictionary on the web as well as hundreds of tutorials and articles
for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options, investment strategies, IPOs,
retirement plans, and much more.
A
very clever multimedia site teaching Personal Finance issues: credit card,
buying a car, and more.
Teen
Price Index is intended as a resource for teachers to educate students
about price indices and encourage schools to reach out and learn across
the internet. Developed with Economics America, Cleveland Center through
a grant from O.C.E.E. and Ameritech
Tackling
the financial illiteracy in our schools by providing teachers with the
tools, training and support they need to do something about this major
national problem. The core product of FL2001 is the "Basics of Saving and
Investing", a multi-module teaching guide that is available both in print
and online.
Kid's
Consumer Corner (Also Math)
(Done
by students) In the past, fiscal responsibility for kids meant making decisions
to spend their allowances on comics or bubble gum. Now kids are some of
the market's most important consumers and their fiscal responsibilities
appear to be greater than ever. Have your students study up on basic calculations
along with lessons on consumer prudence by visiting this hands-on site.
papers.
Jump$tart
Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
Coalitions
direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to insure that basic
personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational
experience.
Consumer
Education for Teens
This
site is a special project for the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
All of the information in this site was developed by teens, for teens.
It is intended to help teenagers (a group commonly targeted by businesses
and scam artists) become educated consumers, as well as giving them somewhere
to turn if they have questions or get ripped off.
Investors'
Guide: Personal Finance
Information
on loans, credit, morgages, car buying, retirement, etc, and links to discussion
groups on various related topics.
Showcases
how simple it is to teach "banking concepts" to very young children by
opening a bank within an elementary school. The cost of the program is
meant to be cosponsored by a local financial institution.
Features
a fine collection of loan resources and provides calculation programs (eg
"what will it take for you to become a millionaire?"), daily rate quotes,
and advisory reports. Includes areas for car, home, and credit cards and
answers lots of standard questions.
Lots
of information about things like IRAs, retirement planning, buying a car
on the Internet, tips on helping kids save, etc.
Dedicated
to non-commercial investor education. Many "how to" pages, section for
young people, and a quiz
on your IQ (Investment Quotient), ending with national survey results
and discussion.
National
Financial Services Personal Finance
National
Financial Services Network Personal Finance has information about loans
(home, car, education), consumer credit, insurance, securities, savings
accounts, electronic banking, and personal Finance Software. Also searches
for best rates by state.
Large
and very comprehensive glossary of investor words.
What
Every Investor Should Know (from the US Securites and Exchange Commission).
Yahoo
Finance and Investment
Yahoo
Finance and Investment References and Guides.
Kiplinger
Online calculators for financial decisions. Also see the Personal
Finance page of articles.
A
guide for educators from Nasdaq and NICE: financial decisions, how markets
work, investment choices, etc. Also includes lessons for educators to use.
Small
Business Entrepreneurs
The
purpose of this web site is to provide would-be and start-up entrepreneurs
with some handy tools and resources to make the task of planning and starting
a small business easier. This site has also been designed for the purpose
of promoting small business information and planning electronic guidebooks.
While
the handbook is geared toward electric, water, telephone, and gas utility
customers, it contains practical home economics information useful to consumers.
Topics include avoiding telephone scams such as slamming and cramming,
reducing junk mail, deciphering utility bills, reading gas/electric/water
meters, energy/water conservation, and more. Also offers a glossary of
terms.
Using
Personal Finance lessons (NCEE materials) to teach mathematics:
Keyed
to K-2 math standards
Keyed
to 3-5 math standards
Keyed
to 6-8 math standards
Population and Places
Follow
the links to the CIA Factbook. The CIA Factbook is a wonderful source of
information about the world's countries: their geography, people, government,
economy, transportation, communications, and defense (by country). You
can also get a GIF file of each country's flag.
Demographic
Profiles of US States, Cities, Towns
Demographic
Profiles of Cities and States are available for states, metro areas, counties,
and cities.
Environmental Economic
Information
United
Nations Environment Programme.
Webdirectory,
"Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine"
Syllabi
and Readings in Ecological Economics
Larry
Schankman's Environment and Ecology
Environmental
Economics Unit (Australia).
Natural
Resources Management and Policy.
Environment/Fish
and Wildlife Group.
Environment Resources Management Association.
Government and Political
City.Net:
International Guide to Communities around the World
City.Net
is a comprehensive international guide to communities around the world.
City.Net provides timely access to information on travel, entertainment,
and local business, plus government and community services for all regions
of the world. A great source for information about other countries and
cities.
Follow
the links to the CIA Factbook. The CIA Factbook is a wonderful source of
information about the world's countries: their geography, people, government,
economy, transportation, communications, and defense (by country). You
can also get a GIF file of each country's flag.
THOMAS:
Library of Congress Legislative Information on the Internet
The
Library of Congress Web site provides the full text of legislation for
House and Senate bills searchable by keywords or bill number, the full
text of the Congressional Record, daily accounts of proceedings on House
and Senate floors, and the text of How Our Laws Are Made by Edward F. Willett,
Jr., House Law Revision Counsel. More generally, the Library of Congress
Web pages also provide historical collections and descriptions of some
of the Librarys special collections, and several exhibits. Also very useful
is LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System, which is searchable
by keywords.
Presidential
election pages for students.
Collection
of links and a starting point for discussion on the candidates and on the
electoral process itself. Links to political party campaign pages, etc.
Lesson questions about election process.
American
Enterprise Center has just produced a teacher's kit entitled Free Enterprise
Games. A video-based teacher's kit that teaches the American free enterprise
system using games and team competition. ($195 for kit)
General Social Studies/History.
Money
- Past, Present & Future: Sources of Information on the History of
Money, Contemporary Developments, and the Prospects for Electronic Money.
Great
Economists and Their Times
Major
Schools of Economic Theory.
History
and Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Sections
with links for history, economics, geography, etc.
Professors
who have done research in Economic History are volunteering to assist others
interested in learning more about the field. If you have a question about
economic history that you have been unable to answer through sources such
as encyclopedias or other standard references, they will try to answer
your question or to direct you to a useful source of information.
Open
Directory of Economic History
Large
index of links to social studies materials focusing on economic history
content.
A
virtual museum about money in civilization, from antiquity to the present.
Very well done clever format.
Money
hasn't always looked like it does today. Explore the Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online and watch history come
alive as you step back in time to our nation's beginning. Learn how our
country's rich history is closely tied with our currency. Discover the
role the Federal Reserve has played--and continues to play--in that history.
Unabridged
article from the numismatic catalog The Star Rare Coin Encyclopedia and
Premium Catalog: An Elaborate Encyclopedia of the Coins of the World. Circa
1923, The Numismatic Company of Texas
AmosWeb
Glossary of Economics Terms
Provides
definitions of most economics terms.
The
Basics of Business History
Top
100 Events at a Glance. TSC's list of the top 100 U.S. business events,
presented from most important to least.
How
much is that worth today?
Comparing
the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies)from 1720
to any other year including the present. Give your students a perspective
on prices and purchasing power in the past.
Foundation
for Teaching Economics
Economic
Forces in American History programs are designed to show U.S. History teachers
how to interpret and provide instruction on important historical events
from the vantage point of market forces and economic analysis. Economic
Forces in American History presents a refreshing perspective on our nation's
past; teachers who attend these programs return to their classrooms able
to teach their students about the power of economic forces in shaping American
history.
History
Learnin' and Teachin' link
Harris'
history teaching page.
Social Science Resources HomePage
Social
science resources and organizations in Nebraska and elsewhere from NE Department
of Education.
National
Council for the Social Studies-NCSS Online
NCSS
Online features information and news for social studies educators in the
United States and internationally.
Youth
Enterprise Society (YES)
A
school based, club movement that develops the entrepreneurial abilities
of grades 9, 10 and 11 youth through a community based and action learning
approach. Developed by EWET, South African non-profit.
World
Lecture Hall, by subject, from UT-Austin
The
World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide
who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will
find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars,
multimedia textbooks, etc.
ERIC
Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education
The
ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS)
is one of the 16 subject specialty clearinghouses in the ERIC system. ERIC/ChESS
monitors issues about the teaching and learning of history, geography,
civics, economics, and other subjects in the social studies/social sciences.
Webs
of General Interest to Educators--
Einet
Galaxy Social Sciences Educational Web(not working recently)
Einet
is a huge source for information on education, with topics such as curriculum
and instruction, adult education, higher education, K12, history and philosophy,
and much more.
The
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information
system, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, with large quantities
of information on a host of educational issues and topics.
Advance
Educational Spectrums
A
new Internet site that focuses on Workforce Development, SCANS Skills,
School-to-Work, Skill Development software and training tools, Business-Education
Partnerships, Training. Also links to some great Internet resources on
training, skills,education, government, grant resources, etc.
National
Council on Educational Technology, United Kingdom
NCET
is a charity funded by the Department of Education in the United Kingdom
whose mission is help teachers, lecturers. trainers and learners take advantage
of technology. If you want to know more about using technology in education,
the NCET pages could provide useful information about what has been done
and what works.
UK
Technology Education Centre
Interesting
information, articles, and support for technology education. Focus is United
Kingdom schools.
AskEric
A
personalized Internet-based service providing education information to
teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout
the United States and the World.
Learn
about the programs, people, publications, and funding opportunities from
the Department of Education.
Information
from the U.S. treasure house of museums.
Web66:
Learn to Create a Web Page, and much more
Web66,
a name meant to conjure up Route 66 and its role as an artery linking the
nation, is full of information for K12 schools, "a highway fashioned from
vision and ingenuity." The goals of this project are to help K12 educators
learn how to set up their Internet servers, to link Web servers and educators
and students, and to help K12 educators find and use appropriate Web resources.
As a wonderful bonus, Web66 has the oldest and most comprehensive list
of K12 Web servers on the Internet. See what others are doing!
AskEric
(replaces gopher link) Lesson Plans
You
will find lesson plans for social studies topics here. Use the search to
help, for example "economics" and "lessons".
Creating
Course Materials (Including HTML Tricks)
http://reallybig.com/default.shtml
Mellon
Technology Project
Share
Carolina - UNC-CH (Free Internet Tools)
The
Academic Technology Specialists Web Space
AHDS:
Scholars' Information Requirements in a Digital Age
Drummond's
Inter-Frame Navigation
Gartner
Interactive Home
Lessons
from Business School Web Sites
Mainframe (Inter-Frame Navigation)
NCSA--A
Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
PC
Computing's 1,001 Best Internet Tips
MicroVision
Development - HRML Helpers, Clip Art
Macromedia
- Pathware
Welcome
to CyberClass
So
You Want An Explorer Scrolling Marquee, Huh?