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Reading the Financial Pages: In Print and Online
Students study information presented in the financial pages of newspapers and online sources They learn how to follow stocks online.
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Savings and Stocks
Work together to brainstorm answers to different questions related to the savings of American people. Draw a bar graph representing stocks. Practice using new economic terms as well.
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Researching Stocks on New York Stock Exchange
Sixth graders research to find background information and stock history over the last year about a company listed on the NYSE. They evaluate whether or not they should "invest" in that company. They write a persuasive essay outlining...
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Money and Banking
Twelfth graders explore real world investing and the effects of day to day decisions on their financial futures.
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Stock Mark Culminating Project
Eighth graders use the Internet to research information of American corporations and the PowerPoint to relate this to their classmates.
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Gotcha Covered
Students participate in investments. They purchase property for future financial return or benefit. They discover a stock strategy in which you own stock and write (sell) a call at the next strike price above the current stock value.
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RISKY BUSINESS--OR NOT!
Students learn about the importance and risk that stocks carry within a business. In this financial management lesson plan, students use role play and case scenario situations to decide what stocks are best for given companies. Based on...
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How to Protect Your Money
Students review the basics of investing. They discuss saving strategies and investing fundamentals. Afterward, they consider a scenario from different investment perspectives.
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Risky Business - Or Not!
Students explore the concept of the stock market. In this stock market instructional activity, students discuss the stock market and how it works. Students hypothesize what makes a stock price go up or down. Students watch a short...
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Dot-Com Gives Small Investors a Leg Up
Students explore the concept of investing in stocks. In this investing in stocks activity, students discuss how on-line stock traders have helped people save money. Students discuss ways in which companies can make a product or service...
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Return On Investment
Pupils engage in a activity introducing them to the concept of return on investment, or ROI. Return on investment is a basic principle that should be understood before investing money.
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Google Goes Public
Learners investigate how to invest in the stock market. They research how to be a smart stock investor by visiting a variety of websites that deal with the topic.
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Enterprise Worksheet 1
In these stock exchange worksheet, students use the Celebdaq to complete the chart about celebrity stock, shares, and dividends
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Many Teenagers Uninformed in Financial Literacy
Young scholars explore the concept of financial literacy. They read an article about the lack of financial literacy among teenagers, discuss what if means to be financially literate, the research a career that will allow them to live...
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Running of the Bulls
Students examine what might be in store for Wall Street following the NASDAQ's 547.57 point plunge on Tuesday, April 4, 2000. They evaluate how they might manage a heavily laden high-tech portfolio before deciding how to invest in the...
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Causes of America's Great Depression
Students identify principal causes of the Great Depression. They analyze causes including a decline in worldwide trade, the stock market crash, and bank failures and explain the legacy of the Depression in American society.
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Demanding Celebs: Business Studies
Celebrities and economics? Business or economics classes discuss how different celebrities' stocks have been affected by supply and demand. They track the news to identify factors that impact value, discuss and justify their choice of...
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How to Invest Your Money
Young scholars use the Internet to research various companies to determine if they are smart investment choices. Using a role-play activity, they pretend they have received an inheritance from a distant relative. They invest the money...
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Retirement: Show Me the Money!
Learners explore the concept of retirement finances. In this retirement finances instructional activity, students discuss what it means to save, invest, risk, or the time value of money. Learners play the stock market game. Students...
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Banking on the Future
Students solve problems involving interest. In this investing activity, students investigate the pros and cons of investing in a bank account and stocks. They differentiate between aggressive and conservative investments.
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'I'm Just Totally Lost' About Finances
Explore the concept of financial planning with your class. High schoolers read an article about planning for the financial future and discuss what steps the family in the article took to be financially sound. They consider where they...
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Math Really Does Connect to the Real World
Students listen to parent speakers who discuss how they use math in their professional or personal lives. They take notes and write business form thank you letters.
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"Hey, Mr. Producer!"
Students examine the economic roller coaster involved in the production of a Broadway musical. They read online articles to investigate similarities and differences between nonprofit theater production and Broadway, or commercial,...
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Economic Market Pain
Students read and discuss article, and write an interpretation of the message for a class newspaper.