Describes the use of distance-learning technology for an economics course for second graders. Highlights include obstacles to effective distance education, becoming familiar with video technology, the use of visual learning materials, student-teacher interaction, the need for an adult facilitator, and the instructional sequence used in each…

The material in this secondary teacher's manual, Economics: Choice Making, the second of three sequential units in Course I, provides a foundation upon which subsequent courses will build. Objectives are for students to grasp economic principles which serve as fundamental tools needed to analyze basic facts and institutions of modern economic…