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Digital History
Digital History: Rise and Crash [Pdf]
A great explanaton of how the bull market was started in the stock market in March of 1928, and how, through speculaton and buying on margin, pushed up stock prices. See how the bubble burst over a series of days in October, 1929,...
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
Other
The Mint: The Stock Market: Risks and Rewards
This instructional activity teaches students the importance of the stock market, how to read and interpret reports, and how to track different stocks.
Other
Ab Capital online.com: Fa Qs About Online Trading
Question/answer session on online trading. Questions that are answered include "What is online trading?", "What are the risks involved?", "What are the advantages of online stock trading?", and more.
Other
Usa: Chapter 5: Stocks, Commodities, and Markets
Chapter 5 provides an overview of how stocks, commodities and markets work in the U.S. economic system.
Other
Digerati Life: Five Tips on Evaluating Your Investment Portfolio
Investing in the stock market can be a complicated process, but this site provides five things you should examine to make sure your investments are sound.
Other
Sec: Money Smarts Quiz
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have created an online quiz to test your money $marts. See how well you score on concepts such as money management, finance, and investing.
Other
Nerd Wallet: Beginners Tips for Evaluating Stock Performance
Easy to understand explanation of how to judge how individual stocks are performing, and which ones might be the best investments for specific buyers.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Stock Market & Finance
This page offers a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 26 words pertaining to the Stock Market & Finance. It also provides an extensive vocabulary word list for the Stock Market and finance and ideas for lesson plans.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: 6th Graders Smarter Investors Than College Students
Learn how a group of North Dakota sixth graders beat out a group of college students in a competition after learning the basics of investing.
Other
Market Watch
This site describes headlines, charts, news, and stock information. Everything you need to follow the U.S. marketplace.
The Balance
The Balance: An Introduction to the Financial Markets
This article explains what the different types of financial markets are, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and derivatives, as well as what the functions of financial markets are.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Playing the Stock Market
This Utah Education Network lesson provides directions for engaging students in playing the stock market.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Stock Market Teaching Theme
The educational resource consists of lesson plans on how to teach students about the stock market. Lesson plans and tutorials are included.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How Global Is Your Portfolio?
This engaging lesson challenges students to connect economics and geography as they investigate global companies in the stock market.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Nyse Made Easy
This lesson will help students to understand the terms that are associated with the New York Stock Exchange. It will also help students to read a stock market report found in any major newspaper or online.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Stock Market Price History
Each of us seek to make wise investment decisions that will make our money grow. Unfortunately, we cannot predict the future, but the past can give us a window to understanding the risks and rewards of investing in the stock market. This...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: What Is a Stock? Or, Who Owns Mc Donald's?
Lesson plan from the University of Omaha where the students will be able to understand what a stock is.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)
In this lesson, students will learn about the impact that efficient markets have on attempting to correctly time the stock market, as well as how investing in stocks should have long-term investment goals. Part I begins by having...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Stock Market Work?
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe. In order to fund their voyages, the company turned to private citizens to invest money to support trips in exchange for a share of the...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Does the Nation Consume?
This instructional activity will focus on what the nation consumes and how that is measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the United States, the goods and services produced for household consumption account for about two-thirds of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 2)
In Part II of this lesson plan, students will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the stock market from 1920 until just after WWII. Students will learn the difference...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 3)
In Part III of this lesson, learners will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the stock market from Post WWII through the year 2001. Students will learn the difference...