This inservice manual provides guidelines to help elementary, secondary, and adult education teachers select, use, and design simulation experiences for consumer education. Four example simulations provide students with opportunities to develop decision-making skills as consumers. Simulations may be used as an introductory, developmental, or culminating activity for a unit. They may also be used to illustrate many different consumer situations such as buying goods and services, conserving energy, evaluating advertisements, resolving a car repair complaint, or presenting a case in small claims court. Examples of simulation activities include (1) designing an advertising campaign for a new cereal product; (2) buying products at an auction to emphasize the characteristics of supply, demand, and money; (3) assuming roles of manufacturing executives, food company personnel, laborers, and consumers as they make decisions about an automated strawberry picking machine; and (4) presenting views on a new city ordinance to ban the sale of pipes in order to crack down on drug use. Forms for planning and evaluating decisions, a list of consumer economic simulations, and a bibliography on simulations are included. (KC)