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How Do You Find Stock Symbols?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice finding stock symbols by company, industry, and country. Stock symbols are necessary to find company information such as stock charts, news, and financial data on the Internet.
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History of Toys and Games

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students research history of popular toys to learn when those toys were first introduced. They use measurement skills to create an accurate timeline.
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What is Your Future Worth?

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students use the "StocksQuest Calculator" to calculate the future value of an investment. They compare and contrast investing in the S&P 500 to CDs, T-bonds or bank accounts.
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Curated OER

How Does News Influence Stock Prices?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine how economic news and business events can change the price of a stock. They see that the unexpected events that benefit or harm the company in turn move the company's stock price up or down.
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What are the Indices of Investing?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn the benchmarks that measure the ups and downs of the stock market. They also explore how to set up a diversified portfolio and trade stock indices for the Global Stock Game (GSG).
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What is an Initial Public Offering (IPO)?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn the difference between primary and secondary stock markets. Obviously, students explain that it is difficult, if not impossible, for individuals to get shares of an IPO at the offering price.
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Group Advertising Project Using iMovie

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students, while working in groups, pick a product or service from one company to invest in for the Newsday Stock Market Game. They develop an advertisement for the product or service utilizing the iMovie program on the computers.
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PPT
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Good Time and Bad: Roaring 20's, Great Depression, and WWII quiz

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Quiz your students on various topics related to the Roaring 20's, The Great Depression, and WWII. They'll ace any test after viewing this slide show. Tip: Turn this quiz into a game, see which side of the class is ready for the test.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

By the People, For the People

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A picture speaks a thousand words—no matter how old. The 18th installment of a 22-part series on the making of American history has scholars research the causes of the Great Depression and the factors of the New Deal. Using photographic...
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Remote Control

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine the business of sports. In this current events instructional activity, students discuss the sale of Manchester United to an American businessman. Students listen to a lecture about branding and marketing. Students may...
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Curated OER

Hot Commodities in Turm-Oil?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students assess their daily consumption of oil and petroleum-based products. They examine current global oil supply situation.
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Curated OER

Money and Banking

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore real world investing and the effects of day to day decisions on their financial futures.
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The Great Depression in South Carolina

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research The Great Depression in South Carolina. In this Great Depression lesson plan, students read and discuss the information given to them, along with analyzing photographs from the time.

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