Suggests evaluation criteria for selecting CD-ROMs and describes some typical titles along with examples of learning activities. Highlights include reference titles, including encyclopedias, magazine indexes, newspaper databases, subject-specific indexes, timetables and almanacs, and atlases; and curriculum-specific titles. (LRW)

Listings are offered to inform teachers of the wide variety of materials which are available to assist them in developing consumer education programs at the elementary level. Seven sections list and describe 29 resource guides, 30 books, 15 periodicals, 33 films, 32 filmstrips, 18 multimedia kits, and three miscellaneous articles. Every entry…

Ninety-eight annotated citations for reference and fiction books and 87 citations for magazines, articles, pamphlets, records and tapes, free and inexpensive material sources, and resource persons are given in this bibliography. The materials cited were published from 1909 to 1973. The bibliography was compiled to aid teachers in planning and…