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- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students gain an understanding of the stock market to where they can legally make money that the can later spend in class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students analyze and compare the performance of different stocks as reported in the financial pages of a newspaper. They read a daily stock market table and simulate stock market purchases. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students complete an online exercise in which they discover the history of the stock market. They examine the difference between a buy and hold verses market timing strategy. They use new vocabulary in describing how they are used when determining stock values. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a stock market simulation. They form investment groups to choose and follow stocks of their choice for six to eight weeks. Students, working in groups, prepare a final project including graphs to show their stocks' progress and a report on their companies. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use the internet to trace the history of stocks on the Dow Jones 30. They describe how different factors like inflation and taxes impact the returns on stocks. Using investment numbers, they calculate the real and nominal returns. In groups, they create a table comparing the two numbers and they discuss the results. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students simulate making a $100,000 investment in the stock market following a specific set of criteria. They track the stocks for two months, buying and selling stocks in a diversified portfolio. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students create a $100,000 stock portfolio by selecting stocks from a list of one hundred companies. They complete sell/buy orders, track their portfolio values through Yahoo Finance over an eight-week period, conduct Internet research on a company, and develop a Portfolio worksheet using Microsoft Excel. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the historical trend of the stock market as a whole. They connect trends in the marketplace with current events. Students use regression analysis to determine the trend line that best represents the growth rate, over time, of different market indices. Students compare and contrast the growth trends of market indices. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students participate in a variety of stock market games within their classmates. They study the concepts of stocks and investments as well as the criteria for selecting of stocks. Each student is shown how to keep track of the progress of their investments and how to read and interpret stock progress on graphs. Full Review »
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